Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:15:58 -0800 From: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do you think? Message-ID: <19990403181558.A91593@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <19990404115240.10323@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:52:40AM %2B1000 References: <19990403171411.A89734@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> <19990404115240.10323@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:52:40AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 05:14:11PM -0800, Michael Haro wrote: > > What do you think about creating some sort of variable in the Makefile > > like NEXT_VERSION or something which contains either a regular expression > > or printf like format string so that a script can go through the ports and > > check for new versions. > > So with your idea, does it go off and check whether the new sources are > available and blindly compile them with the old patches or with none at > all? Or does it only check to see if there's a new FreeBSD port yet, > and if so download the port and the sources and compile it, without > noticing that the port is for another version of FreeBSD? Or does it > notice that and install the ports upgrade kits as well, and if so what > if they are not suitable? Or will it simply check and report on > availability of new versions? What if I'm not connected to the 'net at > the time, will it dial up and slug my phone bill each time it wants to > have a look? My idea was actually to help the ports maintainers know when a new version of the source for a program they are responsible for is out. If you are looking for a utility to tell you if there is a newer version of a port already in existance than the version you have installed, take a look at the sysutils/pkg_version port. If you want to be able to update your ports tree with the current version, use cvsup. See /usr/share/examples/cvsup/. I'm sorry if I confused anyone. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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