From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 1 18:04:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23272 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23267 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id MAA32696; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:33:59 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA00372; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:33:59 +1030 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:33:58 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Nik Clayton Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port/package upgrade checker In-Reply-To: <19990101173342.A1048@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message