From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 15 13:32:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12297 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA12281 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0ywYDk-0000j7-00; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:32:12 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA00108; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:32:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807151632.KAA00108@harmony.village.org> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Subject: Re: Package version checker Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:12:44 PDT." <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:32:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> Bruce A. Mah writes: : I've written a Perl 5 script that checks the installed version of : ports/packages against an index file (a la /usr/ports/INDEX, or the on-line : equivalent) to see which ones might be out of date. I'm not real proud of : this quick hack, but if it'd be useful to anyone, I've put it at: Cool. This is one of the cool things that my brother was recently telling me about in one of the Linux distributions that he was using. Namely you could type a single command, and it would go out, grab source and install stuff that has been updated (eg the ports system plus some database to allow one to update at will). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message