Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:08:13 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: bmah@california.sandia.gov, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 227upgrade package version? Message-ID: <199808291808.LAA17782@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:17:36 PDT." <199808281517.IAA28711@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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--==_Exmh_843893951P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Satoshi Asami wrote: > You can either (1) consider it always new and fetch it from your > /etc/daily, or (2) examine the timestamp or look at where the symbolic > link is pointing to (it has the date in there). > > The timestamp is safer because I sometimes forget to change the name. Thanks for the answer. I also realized that if the 22?upgrade packages were somehow listed in the /usr/ports/INDEX file [1], then my pkg_version utility [2] could use the version numbers in the names of the ports to figure out what's up to date. Bruce. [1] If that's not appropriate, some similarly-formatted file, perhaps. [2] Finally send-pr'ed this morning. --==_Exmh_843893951P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNehDjKjOOi0j7CY9AQFk1wP9GzLN/b20Xl2LyxdDNQZoPnr1dsr9E9+v evL5bv1T6+V+gZYcg/DcQC6MoxFELngT8alxA8x1dBNDR9Q2zC/ah1ImyN2ZZRlm jsBtfayXl65lp4z9ObyDWN0c/jbcVV1p5yUm50fOmQ2Gr5OdizQ6ugpSmRbWRIa/ J+o8STA7Z5E= =JDtN -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_843893951P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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