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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:14:43 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net>
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Subject: Re: updating packages automatically...
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version
> > that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands 
> > you should run to update any out of date ports.  I cron this and mail
> > the output out once a week.
> 
> in deed, i am very interested in it. having your patches, do you think,
> there's any need for a tool in perl? i'm recently testing my version and
> it seems to work as expected.
> could you possibly send me your patches?

Various people have asked for these.

    http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/pkg_version.diff
                                pkg_version.1.diff

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