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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:25:48 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?
Message-ID:  <18740.7708.896663.777313@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081201171748.1c9b5718@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20081201151249.GA5103@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20081201171748.1c9b5718@gumby.homeunix.com>

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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, ....)


				Robert Huff




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