Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 22:19:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Easy way to upgrade ports? Message-ID: <390FB6F5.8D87E94B@3-cities.com> References: <20000503141130.M8284@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > I've just installed a new machine, and have vowed not to carry over my > old, crufty ports, but to install the latest versions instead. But > how do I find out which ones I need? I can use pkg_info to tell me > the names of the currently installed ports, but that doesn't even tell > me which directory they came from, let alone what the name of the > current port is. Have I missed something, or is this something we > need to look at? It has been my experience to use "pkg_version -c" to flag crufty ports. It provides you with a cd path and the current version. I frequently grep /cdrom/packages/INDEX for the location. It provides the hierachy that you will find under /usr/ports/ Kent > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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