Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:15:58 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Jo Galara <jogalara@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-Mail if updates available? Message-ID: <4D92F4CE.3040906@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D92C02F.4000500@gmail.com> References: <4D92C02F.4000500@gmail.com>
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On 30/03/2011 06:31, Jo Galara wrote: > Hi, > > on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are > updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for > FreeBSD? > Hi, I use ports rather than packages, so a combination of a cron for portsnap to update the portstree (at some silly time so I wont accidentally update ports while portsnap is doing stuff to the ports tree, see the manpage.) and "portmaster -L | grep New" I dont cron it but you could easily enough, (portmaster is ports-mgmt/portmaster , you could use the tools from ports-mgmt/portupgrade of you prefer.) Oh and I'd suggest freebsd-questions as a better list for this kind of query. Vince
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