Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:57:21 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system? Message-ID: <49346BD1.3070704@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <18740.7708.896663.777313@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20081201151249.GA5103@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20081201171748.1c9b5718@gumby.homeunix.com> <18740.7708.896663.777313@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > RW writes: > >> > Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have >> > been done on a system? I did a "portupgrade -arR" recently and want to >> > know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't >> > run that portupgrade under "script"...) >> >> pkg_glob(1) can show package installed before or after either a time >> or a particular port. > > One can also send the output to a file, and grep your chosen > ports or use "tail -f". > I do not recommend doing this with "portupgrade -a" unless you > know the list will be fairly short. (Imagine rebuilding OpenOffice, > KDE, Java, FireFox, ....) > For future upgrades, portmanager (ports-mgmt/portmanager) will log if you tell it to, alternatively you can make it tell you what ports need updating and why, without actually upgrading anything. chris
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