Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:45:05 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <54010271.5050303@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408291622510.78665@wonkity.com> 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> <CAO82ECHwoe_6TLkNnG4afuakcLm57vmFwahyAmWoebdqSJZX-A@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408291622510.78665@wonkity.com>
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On 08/29/14 17:24, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Cristiano Deana wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, William A. Mahaffey III >> <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: >> >>> 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) >> >> That's not how it works. >> portsnap update THE PORTS' TREE, not the installed ports. AFTER you >> have update your ports tree, you can run >> portversion -v | grep '<' >> to show which ports you have INSTALLED has some update. > > portversion is part of portupgrade. I recommend portmaster instead: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html > > portmaster -L shows a report on all installed ports. Piping that > through egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' lists just the ports > needing to be upgraded. > I just tried that, very nice. What is the correspondence, if any, between ports & pkgs ? i.e. if a new port shows up, is a new pkg for that port soon to follow (if that port is pkg'ed) ? TIA .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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