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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:31:34 +1000
From:      "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get
Message-ID:  <19990928083134.A73274@gurney.reilly.home>
In-Reply-To: <19990927080912.A2944@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <199909252352.BAA26437@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <19990927102234.A53880@gurney.reilly.home> <19990927080912.A2944@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:09:13AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> > What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after
> > my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I
> > "subscribe to" has changed, so that I can think about rebuilding it.
> 
> ports/sysutils/pkg_version.
> 
> Then apply the patches at
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/pkg_version.diff
>                                 pkg_version.1.diff
> 
> and use the -c flag.

This is lovely.  And it re-inforces one of my pet theories: if
you want a program badly enough that you're prepared to write
it, someone else almost certainly has...

Thanks.

-- 
Andrew


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