Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:35:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <19990927113550.A53070@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19990927102234.A53880@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199909252352.BAA26437@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <19990927102234.A53880@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Mon 1999-09-27 (10:22), Andrew Reilly wrote: > I've longed for a mechanism to keep the ports that I use as > up-to-date as the rest of my FreeBSD system. Unfortunately, > some ports I don't use very often, and so forget that they're > there. > > Unfortunately (again), the port name-version_number identifier > isn't _quite_ unique enough to use as a key for tracking ports. > For example: ssh and docbook have multiple versions for the same > base name installed concurrently. > > What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after > my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I > "subscribe to" has changed, so that I can think about rebuilding it. I have patches to pkg_version that teach it to handle multiple versions installed and in the ports INDEX, which works pretty well in my use, albeit a bit slower than pkg_version. They are at http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/pkg_version-patch I've got a local patch at home that can take a list of packages (like "pkg_version gtk docbook ssh") and checks only those packages for changes - it does break current command-line interpretation - usually pkg_version takes a path to the INDEX as its only argument, my patches use a -f location option. Plug in those patches Nik has, and you can have intelligent automatic updating (although sometimes you'll clobber your configuration files). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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