From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 13:47:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395437B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from isber.ucsb.edu (research.isber.ucsb.edu [128.111.147.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFFA43EC5 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randall@isber.ucsb.edu) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=research.isber.ucsb.edu) by isber.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18VIbt-000BPA-00; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:47:09 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:47:09 -0800 (PST) From: randall ehren To: Daniel Goepp Cc: Subject: RE: Selecting a specific list of ports to update In-Reply-To: <004301c2b4ec$503705e0$6432a8c0@dpg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan *18VIbt-000BPA-00*vYqJzJEQLrY* (ISBER - Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And have it just updates those specific apps, not the whole branch. I > realize that I can just download the individual ports I want, and > install them, without using cvsup, but I like being able to leave it in > my cron, and have them update automatically, and tell me when there are > new versions of just the apps I run, not every mail app out there. doesn't quite solve your problem, but http://www.freshports.org/ has a feature whereby you send it output from pkg_info and it emails you daily letting you know when the port has been updated. (you still have to manually download the port, or update your tree) -randall -- :// randall s. ehren :// voice 805.893.5632 :// systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu :// institute for social, behavioral, and economic research To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message