From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 22:52:16 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 58EF9FCE for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C2121D46 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-248.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7SMqEuR005380 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:52:15 -0500 Message-ID: <53FFB415.3050002@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:58:29 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; 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> <53FF9198.2000205@my.hennepintech.edu> <53FFA93B.40109@hiwaay.net> <53FFAFC2.3040007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53FFAFC2.3040007@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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 22:52:16 -0000 On 08/28/14 17:40, Jungle Boogie wrote: > Dear William, > -------------------------------------------- > From: William A. Mahaffey III > Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:12:11 -0500 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Ports question .... >> >> On 08/28/14 15:31, Andrew Berg wrote: >>> On 2014.08.28 15:16, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> 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 .... >>> The ports tree is updated whenever someone makes a commit to update/fix a port, >>> or to update/fix the ports infrastructure. Given its size, this means frequency >>> is on the order of minutes. Portsnap and Subversion will both list any changes >>> you pull in when you update your copy. >>> >>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/?sortby=date#dirlist >> Is there a way to get the list of changes since I last pulled it down w/o >> actually doing the download ? That way, if nothing I needed was upgraded, I >> could spend the time elsewhere .... >> > So you want to know what changes occurred without actually getting anything? > As I explained, updating your ports directory doesn't actually update your > installed applications. So I recommend following the link that Andrew provided. > > If you're concerned about time, install and use tmux[0] and just wait for > portsnap fetch update to complete. > > Is there any reason you NEED to use ports? Are you setting special > configuration options? Have you tried out packages yet? > > Thanks, > Jungle > > [0] http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-tmux > Trying to get flash support working needs ports, no pkg's available .... I am using pkg for *everything* possible, but flash needs ports .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.