From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 04:17:27 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 734E51065670 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 04:17:27 +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 04DA9152360; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 04:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D745C56.7080506@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:17:26 -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: Warren Block References: <4D73D464.3070806@roorback.net> <4D7409CB.1040706@FreeBSD.org> <4D743539.6060101@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: Olivier Smedts , 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 04:17:27 -0000 On 03/06/2011 17:59, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > >> 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. > > pkg_version is somewhat faster. True, but 'portmaster -L' (with a ports tree) gives you more information. Such as when ports you have installed have been DEPRECATED or MOVED. :) 'portmaster -L --index-only' is very competitive in terms of wall clock time with any other method. 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/