Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:44:38 -0600 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Musings about tracking FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199903230444.WAA17794@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:01:23 EST." <XFMail.990322210123.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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> I have a very simple shell script that greps /usr/ports/INDEX to find ports > that need updating. It does have the rare false alarm (namely pgp-2.6.2). Bruce Mah's Perl script in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_version does this, too. > Also, I find that /usr/ports/INDEX isn't always up to date with the rest of the > ports tree, occasionally producing another false alarm, but these are easy to > find by just checking the version in the respective ports Makefile. You can also fix the out-of-date /usr/ports/INDEX problem by doing a "make index" in /usr/ports, but this gives your disk a MAJOR workout and takes a while to complete, so the fix might be worse than the problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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