From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 12:11:08 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9100335B for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 279961336 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s7TCB4Rk070974; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:11:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:11:04 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "William A. Mahaffey III" , "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Ports question .... References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:11:08 -0000 On 29/08/2014 13:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 08/28/14 17:51, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:43:49PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> >>> .... How do I check to see if the ports collection has been updated ? I >>> had some problems a week or so ago getting some stuff to compile. There >>> were some later posts alluding to some ports being a bit stale .... If >>> that was my problem, I'd like to update & try again .... >> The http://www.freshports.org/ site gives a nice overview of recent port >> changes. It also lists the SVN revision. If you use subversion to keep >> your >> ports tree up to date you can check the state of your ports tree with; >> >> > svnlite log -r HEAD /usr/ports/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> r366459 | danilo | 2014-08-29 00:34:41 +0200 (Fri, 29 Aug 2014) | >> 2 lines >> >> - Update from 1.40.01 to 1.40.02 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> In this case my ports tree is at r366459. >> >> Generally I like to update my ports tree weekly. That *generally* >> makes for >> relatively small updates using svnlite (in the base system in FreeBSD >> 10) and >> ports-mgmt/portmaster; >> >> # svnlite /usr/ports >> # less /usr/ports/UPDATING >> # portmaster -ai >> >> Reading UPDATING is important! Sometimes updates need special actions. >> >> Roland > > This sounds like it is very close to what I am looking for. I typed in > the above command & the shell said command not found .... What pkg('s) > do I need for svnlite support ? TIA .... It's in the base system: fileserver:3# which svnlite /usr/bin/svnlite