From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 08:24:13 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB4616A421 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8383913C489 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from bremerhaven.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10]) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>) id 1HqlfA-000NlG-1v; Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4653F303.2000302@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:24:13 -0000 RW wrote: > 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. This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. I consider this a severe bug. Luckily, this was on a server system where X11 is not crucial. I really don't want to imagine the hassle i would have had if portmanager had removed exim or apache or samba or ... > > pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports. Thanks for this hint :-) --Heinrich