From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 13:37:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B678E2E for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 292A41DE2 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-19-61.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7TDbTTu028906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:37:29 -0500 Message-ID: <54008390.7050409@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:43:44 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Ports question .... References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> <54007189.8070807@hiwaay.net> <540076CD.6000201@qeng-ho.org> <5400793A.4090702@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; 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 13:37:31 -0000 On 08/29/14 08:09, Cristiano Deana wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> I have been using portsnap, I just couldn't figure out how to get it to tell >> me what ports had been updated since I last fetched (w/o fetching again) > That's not how it works. > portsnap update THE PORTS' TREE, not the installed ports. AFTER you > have update your ports tree, you can run > portversion -v | grep '<' > to show which ports you have INSTALLED has some update. Very well, thx, I wasn't clear on that, still a noob to pkg-management in FBSD :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.