Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:39:33 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > Hi list, > > i use > > # portmanager -s|grep OLD | sort -t: -k2 > > occasionally to see which ports need upgrading. Ports tree is > cvsup'ed each night. > > I then noticed that almost *all* X11 manpages had been deleted. :-( > > The portmanager manpage reads: > > o -s or --status > status of installed ports > > My Question: how is it possible that this command *deletes* any ports? > I am aware that there have been big changes to X11 recently, but > nevertheless, something like this should not happen. That port has been removed from the tree. Portmanger will prompt you to remove it and then do it automatically after a timeout. It's not really intended to be machine-readable output. pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports.
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