Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 03:34:33 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jacs@gnome.co.uk Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple perl script for ports update checking Message-ID: <199510171034.DAA07816@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <jacs-9509161112.AA00062262@hawk.gnome.co.uk> (message from Chris Stenton on Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:12:13 %2B0100)
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* Here is a simple perl script for checking the current ports tree
* against a users installed packages and notifying the user which ports
* have been either updated or removed. I find this useful to keep my
* 40 or so ports upto date.
This is really cool. Some suggestions....
* open(INDEXFH, "/usr/ports/INDEX") || die "Could not open /usr/ports/INDEX";
The user can have the ports root directory can be in a place other
than "/usr/ports" by setting the environment variable PORTSDIR.
* $pkg =~ s/-.*/-/;
^^^^^^^^
Should be "s/-[^-]*$/-/", it is legal for a package name to include
more than one hyphen. The version number is always after the last
hyphen though.
* print "updated too\t", $line;
^^^
"to"? :)
Also, sometimes a user will have both the old and new versions in
/var/db/pkg because she just installed the new version (which
overwrote the old one but didn't erase the entry in /var/db/pkg).
Maybe wa can add a re-check for this?
This is totally neat. May I make a port of it? Or maybe we can sneak
it into /usr/sbin via pkg_install or something.... :)
Satoshi
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