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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:21:20 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com>, Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>
Subject:   Re: frequency of pkg updates
Message-ID:  <4619319.I3UruO6Dxl@curlew.lan>
In-Reply-To: <54C0F7EF.4000805@my.hennepintech.edu>
References:  <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> <2028260.lLgEXe72zl@curlew.lan> <54C0F7EF.4000805@my.hennepintech.edu>

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On Thursday 22 Jan 2015 07:15:27 Andrew Berg wrote:

> A handy tip for anyone mixing packages from the official repo and their own
> packages from ports: each individual build page displays the SVN revision of
> the ports tree from which that particular set of packages was built, so you
> can sync your own ports tree with it. This, of course, requires using SVN
> instead of portsnap to keep your tree up-to-date.

Anyone interested in doing this might be interested in an earlier post I made 
<https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2015-January/263372.html>; or <http://preview.tinyurl.com/p6tjto2>; where I included 
a short script for automating this process derived from an earlier script 
posted by Reed A. Cartwright.

To use this script you will need the textproc/jq package. Since posting the 
script I noticed that, unlike portsnap, svnlite doesn't update INDEX but it's 
a trivial matter to add an extra line to run "make -C /usr/ports fetchindex".

-- 
Mike Clarke



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