From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 12:32: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F067037B69B for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69178 invoked by uid 100); 14 Jan 2001 20:31:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14946.3249.806878.543538@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:31:45 -0600 (CST) To: Lars Eighner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does make build|installworld also update ports? In-Reply-To: <5051709@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lars Eighner types: > 1) Be sure there is anything to upgrade by comparing the version > number in the Makefile of the port with the version you have installed. > You can check the installed version number in /var/db/pkg/ or you > can query most applications to report their own version number with > the -v or -version or whatever switch. Or you can run pkg_version, which compares the version number of the installed package with the version number of the port for all installed packages, and reports the results. See the man page for details. If you are tracking -stable (or -current), you can set weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES" in /etc/periodic.conf, and get a weekly check for out of date packages. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message