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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:19:57 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portversion not working ?
Message-ID:  <20040323121957.GA31197@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0403230459100.21057-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0403230459100.21057-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:02:01AM -0700, RJ45 wrote:
>=20
> when I run portversion -v to check against current pacakges installed and
> the up to date versions many packages are reported as up to date but there
> is a new versio nin hte ports avaliable.
> this happened for example with freetype.
>=20
> I had
>=20
> freetype2-2.1.5_2  =3D  up-to-date with port
>=20
> i did a portupgrade freetype2-2.1.5_2
>=20
> and the result now is
>=20
> freetype2-2.1.7_2           >  succeeds port (port has 2.1.5_2)
>=20
>=20
> anyone has some hint for me?

See the manpage - portversion refers to the INDEX file for comparing
versions, which means it will be out of date unless you have just
built one yourself.

Kris

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