Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 21:29:05 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <46551491.7060401@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200705231432.42204.> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070523173046.48841db3@localhost> <d7195cff0705230042v291b7815pe2b4e9166500adcc@mail.gmail.com> <200705231432.42204.>
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Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >> On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: >>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 >>> >>> RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: >>>> pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports. >>> Alternatively, >>> >>> portversion -v | grep \< >>> >>> eg: >>> >>> [betom@ayiin] [Wed May 23 17:26:33 2007] >>> /usr/home/betom >>> $ portversion -v | grep \< >>> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/tmp ... - 17232 port >>> entries found >>> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000........ >>> .6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.. >>> .......12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000...... >>> ...17000.. ..... done] eclipse-3.2.1_1 < needs updating (port >>> has 3.2.1_3) en-openoffice.org-GB-2.2.0 < [held] needs updating (port >>> has 2.2.0_1) gnomehier-2.2_1 < needs updating (port has >>> 2.2_2) >> % pkg_version -vL= >> (slow, but works for 7.x) > I believe it is safe (for now) to symlink INDEX-6 as INDEX-7. This will allow > pkg_version -I to be used on -CURRENT. >> or >> % pkg_version -vIL= >> (faster, assuming you have an up-to-date INDEX, 5.x or 6.x) >> if you don't use ports-mgmt/portupgrade > > - Pieter de Goeje This will may change in the future, so I don't suggest doing that. INDEX-7 is automatically downloaded when you get "make fetchindex" anyhow, so why do you want to symlink the two Indeces? -Garrett
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