Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:58:21 -0700 From: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Check for ports updates Message-ID: <200006062158.e56LwLT23308@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>
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If memory serves me right, Thomas Schuerger wrote: > > > Is there already a tool that checks the installed ports for available > > > updates in /usr/ports? > > > > > > I've written such a tool, which seems to work fine already. Anyone > > > interested? > > > > pkg_version(1) > > Ah, haven't seen that before. The output of pkg_version is very > canonical, but not very readable for humans. And it's slower than my > version... ;-) Without having looked at ports_updates yet, let me just mention that: 1. If you want human-readable output, try "pkg_version -v". Maybe that should have been a default; certainly I always run it that way. But in the case that a program was going to postprocess the output, I didn't want it to have to wade through a bunch of pretty-printing stuff to get the results it needed. 2. When I was writing pkg_version, speed wasn't exactly a big priority to me, since pretty much *anything* was faster than what I was doing. Bruce. PS. I've been really bad about ignoring suggestions for pkg_version, mostly because it does everything I need/want it to do right now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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