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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:04:36 +0800
From: Yue Wu <vanopen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Question about packages installed via `pkg_add -r`
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Hi, list,

I'm trying to use package instead of ports these day, but a few
questions have:

1. How to reserve packages that fetched via `pkg_add -r`?

2. How to know if there are updates for packages, and how to update?

-- 
Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China