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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, Satoshi Asami wrote:

> You can either (1) consider it always new and fetch it from your
> /etc/daily, or (2) examine the timestamp or look at where the symbolic 
> link is pointing to (it has the date in there).
> 
> The timestamp is safer because I sometimes forget to change the name.

Thanks for the answer.  I also realized that if the 22?upgrade packages were 
somehow listed in the /usr/ports/INDEX file [1], then my pkg_version utility 
[2] could use the version numbers in the names of the ports to figure out 
what's up to date.

Bruce.

[1]  If that's not appropriate, some similarly-formatted file, perhaps.

[2]  Finally send-pr'ed this morning.




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