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Subject: Re: Ports - installation & upgrade history
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On 11/30/2010 10:24, David Southwell wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I was idly wondering how easy/difficult it might be to maintain and access an
> historical record of port installations and upgrades on a particular system.

ports-mgmt/portmaster has the capability to log this information for 
you. Look in the man page in the ENVIRONMENT section for more information.


hth,

Doug

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