From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 13: 9:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from otis.netspace.net.au (oldotis.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F498119CB for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:09:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@netspace.net.au) Received: from whirlwind.netspace.net.au (whirlwind.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.70]) by otis.netspace.net.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/NS) with ESMTP id IAA29559; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:09:08 +1100 (EST) Received: from netspace.net.au (dialup-t1-215.Melbourne.netspace.net.au [210.15.250.215]) by whirlwind.netspace.net.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/NS) with ESMTP id IAA13073; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:11:32 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199902182111.IAA13073@whirlwind.netspace.net.au> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:07:44 +1100 (EST) From: gcross@netspace.net.au Reply-To: gcross@netspace.net.au Subject: Re: Port upgrade check/report tool To: brett@lariat.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990218125208.04019eb0@mail.lariat.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18 Feb, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:01 PM 2/18/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >>At 22.47 18/02/99 +1100, you wrote: >>>I haven't found a tool that will look at the current ports index file, >>>then look at the ports installed on my system and tell me which ports >>>are now out-of-date and need upgrading. >>> >>>So, I have written a Python program that will do just that. > > What do you do if the ports for that version have vanished? I have > one 2.2.7 machine; when it looks for ports for 2.2.7, it says > it can't find them anymore. Brett, is this a problem with my script (eg. it is failing to find an INDEX file) or are you making a more general statement about the moving nature of available ports & packages for FreeBSD? Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross gcross@netspace.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message