Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:33:43 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Dan Nelson' <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 2 questions about using the ports collection Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D26@site2s1>
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The readme's are generated when the release is made and are installed as part of the ports collection, during the initial installation. Cvsup and cvs do not create new readme's. If you would like a new set of readme files generated, you can do the following. cd /usr/ports make readmes -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Nelson [SMTP:dnelson@emsphone.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 10:33 AM > To: Francis J. Bruening > Cc: freebsd > Subject: Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection > > In the last episode (Oct 28), Francis J. Bruening said: > > 1) As ports get updated, is there anyway to automatically find out > > which ports I have installed, which are no longer "current", and > > update them behind the scenes. I guess I could write a perl script > > to look at pkg_info and then at what's in /usr/ports, but that > > seems really clunky... > > Take a look at ports/sysutils/pkg_version. Been done already :) > > > 2) When ports are updated, do their README files get updated also? I > > ask this because mutt & gnome both had the old release in the > > README files, but the md5 file referenced the "new" versions > > Hmm. I have a README in /usr/ports/REAME, but that's about it. Where > did you get them? > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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