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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:19:42 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r40008 - projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Message-ID:  <201211151819.qAFIJgYP035317@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: gjb
Date: Thu Nov 15 18:19:42 2012
New Revision: 40008
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40008

Log:
  Add initial documentation about pkg-version.

Modified:
  projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml

Modified: projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Thu Nov 15 18:19:39 2012	(r40007)
+++ projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Thu Nov 15 18:19:42 2012	(r40008)
@@ -868,7 +868,11 @@ curl-7.24.0_1.txz    100% 1108KB   
 Checking integrity... done
 Upgrading curl from 7.24.0 to 7.24.0_1... done</screen>
 
-	<para><!-- pkg version--></para>
+	<para>Packages that are outdated can be found with
+	  <command>pkg version</command>.  If a local ports tree
+	  does not exist, &man.pkg-version.8; will use the remote
+	  repository catalogue, otherwise the local ports tree will
+	  be used to identify package versions.</para>
 
 	<para><!-- pkg audit --></para>
       </sect3>



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