From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 8:12:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.uunet.ca (mail5.uunet.ca [142.77.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1D537C370 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail5.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <231339-14870>; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:13:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:12:03 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Vivek Khera Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable In-Reply-To: <14523.61072.174812.641256@onceler.kcilink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I call cvsup from crontab, with a line like this: 0 8 * * * root cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile \ | mail -s "epsilon.lucida.qc.ca: ports update output" admin (formatted so it would read right in email) The output from cvsup only shows what it's changed, so it's very handy for tracking what's new, you get it in your e-mail once per day. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: : Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:06:40 -0500 : From: Vivek Khera : To: Matt Heckaman : Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE : Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable : : >>>>> "MH" == Matt Heckaman writes: : : MH> I do not know if "should" would be the word I would choose, however it : MH> fits the situation well. Personally, I cvsup ports every night, but I'm : MH> a little bit over-obsessed with things being "new" =) : : I do as well, but I find it a bit tedious to scan the updated files : list to see what is really updated. Has anyone got a method to say : typing "make whatsnew" in the top of ports and have it scan my : existing ports and the current index and tell me what's out of date : version number wise? : : -- : =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= : Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. : Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 : PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message