Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:21:28 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <54008C68.4020601@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <540083EB.5020801@qeng-ho.org> References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> <54007189.8070807@hiwaay.net> <540076CD.6000201@qeng-ho.org> <5400793A.4090702@hiwaay.net> <540083EB.5020801@qeng-ho.org>
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On 08/29/14 08:45, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 29/08/2014 13:59, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> [huge snip]
>
>> I have been using portsnap, I just couldn't figure out how to get it to
>> tell me what ports had been updated since I last fetched (w/o fetching
>> again) ....
>
> It's my experience that you don't want to be told which ports have
> been updated, as most updates are to ports you're not the slightest
> bit interested in. There are nearly 25,000 ports according to
> FreshPorts and I personally have only about 400 installed on my
> desktop machine (and far fewer on my servers). That means on average
> I'm totally uninterested in 98+% of all port updates.
>
> What you need to know is what *installed* ports are out of date with
> respect to the new ports tree. That's where the 400.status-pkg
> periodic script is useful. I update my ports tree via a crontab entry
> at 23:00 on Fridays, and the weekly periodic script runs at 4:15 on
> Saturday, so I get mail every Saturday morning telling me which
> installed ports are out of date.
>
You are 100% correct, & I thought that was/is what I have been asking
for/about .... For that matter, I would also like to know which
*installed* pkgs are out of date. What is this 400.status-pkg you speak
of ? TIA ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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