From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 22:40:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25008DCE for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBC761BC1 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id hz1so4327226pad.6 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iw8Z9Kts2CjMjILAFqBX9IkIe5AS3YbrZMp/UmxVJcI=; b=wvJ42JY/3m1d30NkSuiOnNFWy2TtgmJ3OzNxp3wq/vI9E9BLT5Me6C8vzCF9y3XjQY yBKdO3NWW/FHiZoO/q0UiLCTHW7eLqojtM6dSVpb/aZevmZFpTl4PruR3bpM73aumUNV eJMHv+6KaxfSM70wt8e4lGvkD/fMXI0+Hb7hERPy6PjX38cRrn1Jaob5O2EVa1uFljkw A4vTTYjftCP78lj5au6sv9K87F15Qg3s/Q/JBtMylCa4w+fqbmOItqqRwbqooMgJSHPH widdeiO2bQOBrpK0kpH0GG3g0A5m1U2yWxOa0Z6KHAqG+2u+frbLyLbI2qlq8zPPa3xW 2Nbg== X-Received: by 10.68.135.70 with SMTP id pq6mr10500727pbb.10.1409265609326; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.31] (wsip-24-234-41-175.lv.lv.cox.net. [24.234.41.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pa2sm7032097pdb.84.2014.08.28.15.40.08 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53FFAFC2.3040007@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:40:02 -0700 From: Jungle Boogie Reply-To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; 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> <53FFA93B.40109@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <53FFA93B.40109@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 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 22:40:10 -0000 Dear William, -------------------------------------------- From: William A. Mahaffey III Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:12:11 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... > > > 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 > > 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 .... > So you want to know what changes occurred without actually getting anything? As I explained, updating your ports directory doesn't actually update your installed applications. So I recommend following the link that Andrew provided. If you're concerned about time, install and use tmux[0] and just wait for portsnap fetch update to complete. Is there any reason you NEED to use ports? Are you setting special configuration options? Have you tried out packages yet? Thanks, Jungle [0] http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-tmux > -- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si