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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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