From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 10:25:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789D716A48F for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAB613C46C for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:25:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l4OAOsLr009260; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:24:54 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: Garrett Cooper Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:24:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <200705231432.42204.> <46551491.7060401@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46551491.7060401@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705241224.53906.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: RW , Norberto Meijome , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "illoai@gmail.com" Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:25:03 -0000 On Thursday 24 May 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 May 2007, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 > >>> > >>> RW wrote: > >>>> pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports. > >>> > >>> Alternatively, > >>> > >>> portversion -v | grep \< > >>> > >>> eg: > >>> > >>> [betom@ayiin] [Wed May 23 17:26:33 2007] > >>> /usr/home/betom > >>> $ portversion -v | grep \< > >>> [Updating the portsdb in /var/tmp ... - 17232 port > >>> entries found > >>> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000...... > >>>.. > >>> .6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........1100 > >>>0.. > >>> .......12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000... > >>>... ...17000.. ..... done] eclipse-3.2.1_1 < needs updating > >>> (port has 3.2.1_3) en-openoffice.org-GB-2.2.0 < [held] needs updating > >>> (port has 2.2.0_1) gnomehier-2.2_1 < needs updating (port > >>> has 2.2_2) > >> > >> % pkg_version -vL= > >> (slow, but works for 7.x) > > > > I believe it is safe (for now) to symlink INDEX-6 as INDEX-7. This will > > allow pkg_version -I to be used on -CURRENT. > > > >> or > >> % pkg_version -vIL= > >> (faster, assuming you have an up-to-date INDEX, 5.x or 6.x) > >> if you don't use ports-mgmt/portupgrade > > > > - Pieter de Goeje > > This will may change in the future, so I don't suggest doing that. > INDEX-7 is automatically downloaded when you get "make fetchindex" > anyhow, so why do you want to symlink the two Indeces? > -Garrett So I can use portsnap (which installs/updates INDEX-6). - Pieter de Goeje