Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:42:19 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports updates notification Message-ID: <20020911104219.GB23847@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20020910161010.01b6d5d8@192.168.1.1> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020910161010.01b6d5d8@192.168.1.1>
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Is there a tool that can notify you when a port you already have installed
> has been updated in /usr/ports (so you can get in there and update it)?
Others have made some excellent suggestions about scripts that will
tell you what ports have newer versions available. You can arrange to
have those scripts run automatically each week and the results emailed
to you as part of the weekly status report, simply by:
echo 'weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"' >> /etc/periodic.conf
That will run the pkg_version script for you via the
/etc/periodic/weekly/400.status.pkg job. If you've installed
portupgrade it comes with an alternate version of 400.status.pkg
installed as /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.status-pkg.sh which you can
substitute for the standard one.
Cheers,
Matthew
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