From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 16:20:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D01416A419 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:20:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xverify@yahoo.com) Received: from web53512.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53512.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.39.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F37B13C457 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:20:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xverify@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 54887 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2007 15:53:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=JI7vPNNTCel5lacUh+oVHvAtDJkWO4wI77Q/k89XfLr0ESen7Y1NpC3H68DqmTYRZJmvtfPtqEcsBgxXizSQI5/G74vf0KYi5m8EHCuZZIMnX/VvKOA6/J40mETzQ4JK1qy5At/f9HemQ0nD3KQkFYUlTTRG3KwcPKtUX7MweV0=; X-YMail-OSG: 0cr723wVM1ngYMLQQhVTI.oX9SHEiPPpM7Ywl3NhzoT5uCgU7KxWV7z4JMU4vhlWZQ-- Received: from [68.183.189.181] by web53512.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:53:33 PDT Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:53:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Kurt Abahar To: ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <738416.54882.qm@web53512.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Keeping ports and packages synchronized X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:20:15 -0000 Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with the latest packages in order to minimize version mismatches and to allow easy mixing between them. So far I've been using a hack that does a listing of the packages-6-stable directory on the freebsd ftp, and uses the mtime of the most recent file (excluding CHECKSUM.MD5) for doing a csup checkout. Unfortunately, this seems to work seldomly. Is anyone aware of a better way to accomplish this? Thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/