Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:24:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408291622510.78665@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAO82ECHwoe_6TLkNnG4afuakcLm57vmFwahyAmWoebdqSJZX-A@mail.gmail.com> 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> <CAO82ECHwoe_6TLkNnG4afuakcLm57vmFwahyAmWoebdqSJZX-A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Cristiano Deana wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> 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. portversion is part of portupgrade. I recommend portmaster instead: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html portmaster -L shows a report on all installed ports. Piping that through egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' lists just the ports needing to be upgraded.
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