From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 16:34:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0A2106564A for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:34:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5538FC19 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q5AGY5K5016660; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:34:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id q5AGY43T016659; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:34:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:34:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201206101634.q5AGY43T016659@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, john_m_cooper@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <4FD4C0AC.4000802@yahoo.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20101126 ("Burnside") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.9 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:34:20 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, john_m_cooper@yahoo.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:34:22 -0000 John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > On 06/10/12 09:54, Martin Sugioarto wrote: > > [...] > > - It would be nice to have a mechanism that tells you that your perl, > > mysql or whatever is not the default version anymore and you should > > consider updating to the default (and recommended) port. > > From /etc/defaults/periodic.conf: > > # 400.status-pkg > weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES" # Find out-of-date pkgs That doesn't do what Martin asked for. It only tells you if a specific port has an update, but it won't tell you if the default version of a port changed. For example, when the default version of Python was changed from 2.6 to 2.7. It also won't tell you if the origin of a port doesn't exist anymore at all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible." -- John William Chambless