From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 20:19:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CDB5A69 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com (mail-pa0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60DC81BA1 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id ey11so3934930pad.21 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:19:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4YEMpLz+heE/oLdqTm1waQ/9fx0NQIs8bVMrkES8saA=; b=LFXJxeM+kTv/vZryjLrcAHNY2JC9uL225edvFipfiFcn0wCP6yyk1TXHqLkdEXlxyh qCOKr3IahPqNEJJc9TOpp8Uti7MUU3U1BWVt8pHp53LyPcmmDirzKpR5UNAM0OfdUnPe JsGCYPHL/K36L1iEndJWEOrYrkN2tEe6w9G/KtAbxBkvjewp0h+WIHAsideW+IZs6Et5 UEcqXA4bSekJw7fkZQHseAxG6PqNU/tSSw5WoQlDFf8aRP8/TxPG/wG7RcBOW6h83srX F9ASu0Jt4tOVVl7s2g8lYQ/TXWzejD+ry/mY0QN3bhi8T6zeZDKLO+YI//cYpVXOAmBQ 8Q3w== X-Received: by 10.68.164.35 with SMTP id yn3mr9548602pbb.104.1409257190756; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.31] (wsip-24-234-41-175.lv.lv.cox.net. [24.234.41.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ou6sm4377465pbb.88.2014.08.28.13.19.49 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53FF8EE1.1020707@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:19:45 -0700 From: Jungle Boogie Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <53FF8860.8000405@gmail.com> <53FF8E28.2010308@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <53FF8E28.2010308@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:19:52 -0000 Dear William, -------------------------------------------- From: William A. Mahaffey III Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:16:40 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... > > > > I think that is what I am asking .... To be more precise, how often should I > check to see if it is updated, weekly, monthly, other .... I guess that is the > nub of the question .... 0. Please learn how to bottom post. 1. Ports are updated once the maintainer makes an update to the application. There's 24,000+ ports and some are not updated every week while others may be. I usually use packages now (precompiled ports) so I don't usually update my ports list (portsnap fetch update) unless I need to. Keep in mind that updating your ports list/directory doesn't mean the new software will be installed. Read this: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ports In fact, most of your emails could likely be answered (or give you clues) if you watched/listened/read the tutorials section at: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ > > > On 08/28/14 14:52, Jungle Boogie wrote: >> Dear William, >> -------------------------------------------- >> From: William A. Mahaffey III >> Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:43:49 -0500 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Ports question .... >>> >>> >>> .... How do I check to see if the ports collection has been updated ? I had >>> some problems a week or so ago getting some stuff to compile. There were some >>> later posts alluding to some ports being a bit stale .... If that was my >>> problem, I'd like to update & try again .... >> Your ports collection is only updated when you portsnap fetch update: >> Updating from Thu Jul 31 14:03:55 PDT 2014 to Thu Aug 28 12:19:25 PDT 2014 >> >> Above is my update, which may or may not be identical to yours so read >> carefully on your system. >> >> Is that what you're asking? >> >>> >> >>