From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 17 15:58:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA12375 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:58:56 -0700 Received: from eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (root@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA12369 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:58:46 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA26588; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:58:41 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA04708; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:05:00 +0100 Message-Id: <199510171505.QAA04708@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Chris Stenton cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple perl script for ports update checking Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Organisation: Vector Systems Ltd, Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Occupation: Internet Unix C & Systems Engineering Consultant X-Phone: +49 89 268616 Fax: +49 89 2608126 Timezone: GMT+1 X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:12:13 +0100." Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:04:59 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Here is a simple perl script for checking the current ports tree > against a users installed packages and notifying the user which ports > have been either updated or removed. I find this useful to keep my > 40 or so ports upto date. Nice Tool ! Spelling: s/updated too/updated to/ Suggestion: Change format to generate list like pkg_delete foo pkg_add bar Perhaps then we should bundle it in to the tree somewhere ... Julian S