Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <4653F303.2000302@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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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" will give you a list of out of date ports.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
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