From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 22:05:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 529F7283 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 036131892 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-248.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7SM5upH009776 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:05:57 -0500 Message-ID: <53FFA93B.40109@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:12:11 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <53FF8860.8000405@gmail.com> <53FF8E28.2010308@hiwaay.net> <53FF9198.2000205@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <53FF9198.2000205@my.hennepintech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:05:59 -0000 On 08/28/14 15:31, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.08.28 15:16, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> I think that is what I am asking .... To be more precise, how often >> should I check to see if it is updated, weekly, monthly, other .... I >> guess that is the nub of the question .... > The ports tree is updated whenever someone makes a commit to update/fix a port, > or to update/fix the ports infrastructure. Given its size, this means frequency > is on the order of minutes. Portsnap and Subversion will both list any changes > you pull in when you update your copy. > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/?sortby=date#dirlist > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Is there a way to get the list of changes since I last pulled it down w/o actually doing the download ? That way, if nothing I needed was upgraded, I could spend the time elsewhere .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.