From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 26 7:52:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@hub.freebsd.org Received: from november.jaded.net (november.jaded.net [216.94.113.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3255C1508E; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 07:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@november.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by november.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3+trinsec_nospam) id LAA18494; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:10:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:10:55 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: Nik Clayton Cc: Christian Carstensen , Chris Costello , freebsd-hackers@hub.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... Message-ID: <19990926111055.A18290@november.jaded.net> References: <19990925180201.C76486@holly.calldei.com> <19990926012352.A49346@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990926012352.A49346@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:23:52AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version | that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands | you should run to update any out of date ports. I cron this and mail | the output out once a week. | | You could have it automatically create and execute a shell script if | you wanted. Sample output from one of my boxes is: [snip] I think this is a great idea, and certainly one of the things (the only thing?) I actually liked debian. I would much rather see this integrated somewhere in /etc/periodic/weekly, and have it output a shell script that can be run manually. -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message