From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 7 10:48: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FB037BA1F for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05282; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:16:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:16:27 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Thomas Schuerger Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Check for ports updates Message-ID: <20000607131626.A4884@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000606153351.E7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>; from schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:25:02PM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:25:02PM +0200, Thomas Schuerger wrote: > > > Is there already a tool that checks the installed ports for available > > > updates in /usr/ports? > > > > > > I've written such a tool, which seems to work fine already. Anyone > > > interested? > > > > pkg_version(1) > > Ah, haven't seen that before. The output of pkg_version is very > canonical, but not very readable for humans. pkg_version -v pkg_version -c N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message