From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 01:30:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293F5106566B for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 01:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from doug-optiplex.ka9q.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28B514D8B2; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 01:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D743539.6060101@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:30:33 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110304 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Smedts References: <4D73D464.3070806@roorback.net> <4D7409CB.1040706@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, Grzegorz Blach , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "b. f." Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:30:34 -0000 On 03/06/2011 16:40, Olivier Smedts wrote: > Could you use "pkg_version -vL =" for your purpose ? It's a base > system tool and doesn't need INDEX. If all you want to know is what ports need updating, portmaster has an option for that. There is also an alias to abbreviate the output in the man page. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/