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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:32:34 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection
Message-ID:  <19991028093234.B68579@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMEEGHCEAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>; from francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:44:26AM -0700
References:  <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMEEGHCEAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 28), Francis J. Bruening said:
> 1) As ports get updated, is there anyway to automatically find out
>    which ports I have installed, which are no longer "current", and
>    update them behind the scenes. I guess I could write a perl script
>    to look at pkg_info and then at what's in /usr/ports, but that
>    seems really clunky...

Take a look at ports/sysutils/pkg_version.  Been done already :)
 
> 2) When ports are updated, do their README files get updated also? I
>    ask this because mutt & gnome both had the old release in the
>    README files, but the md5 file referenced the "new" versions

Hmm. I have a README in /usr/ports/REAME, but that's about it.  Where
did you get them?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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