From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 7:32:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8475114D46 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 07:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA69228; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:32:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:32:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Francis J. Bruening" Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection Message-ID: <19991028093234.B68579@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:44:26AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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