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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:33:58 +1030 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port/package upgrade checker
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901021231350.3978-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <19990101173342.A1048@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:

> Does anyone know of a program that'll run through /var/db/pkg and produce
> a report of installed packages that have got a newer version in the
> ports INDEX file?

sysutils/pkg_version

> I just cobbled together something to do this, and it produces a report
> that looks like this (on my system);
> 
> XFree86-contrib-3.3.1 -> 3.3.3
>         pkg_delete XFree86-contrib-3.3.1
>         cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-contrib
>         make install

It doesnt give quite the same output, but being a perl script it's trivial to
change.

Kris

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