Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:23:26 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <54008CDE.80304@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <540083EB.5020801@qeng-ho.org> 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> <540083EB.5020801@qeng-ho.org>
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On 08/29/14 08:45, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 29/08/2014 13:59, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > [huge snip] > >> 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) .... > > It's my experience that you don't want to be told which ports have > been updated, as most updates are to ports you're not the slightest > bit interested in. There are nearly 25,000 ports according to > FreshPorts and I personally have only about 400 installed on my > desktop machine (and far fewer on my servers). That means on average > I'm totally uninterested in 98+% of all port updates. > > What you need to know is what *installed* ports are out of date with > respect to the new ports tree. That's where the 400.status-pkg > periodic script is useful. I update my ports tree via a crontab entry > at 23:00 on Fridays, and the weekly periodic script runs at 4:15 on > Saturday, so I get mail every Saturday morning telling me which > installed ports are out of date. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Belay that last question, I found that script :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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