Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:10:55 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@hub.FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net>, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, freebsd-hackers@hub.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... Message-ID: <19990926111055.A18290@november.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <19990926012352.A49346@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:23:52AM %2B0100 References: <19990925180201.C76486@holly.calldei.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909260107540.2174-100000@pauling.research.devcon.net> <19990926012352.A49346@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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| If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version
| that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands
| you should run to update any out of date ports. I cron this and mail
| the output out once a week.
|
| You could have it automatically create and execute a shell script if
| you wanted. Sample output from one of my boxes is:
[snip]
I think this is a great idea, and certainly one of the things (the only thing?)
I actually liked debian. I would much rather see this integrated somewhere
in /etc/periodic/weekly, and have it output a shell script that can be run
manually.
--
Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
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