Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:32:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package version checker Message-ID: <199807151632.KAA00108@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:12:44 PDT." <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
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In message <199807141512.IAA26885@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> Bruce A. Mah writes: : I've written a Perl 5 script that checks the installed version of : ports/packages against an index file (a la /usr/ports/INDEX, or the on-line : equivalent) to see which ones might be out of date. I'm not real proud of : this quick hack, but if it'd be useful to anyone, I've put it at: Cool. This is one of the cool things that my brother was recently telling me about in one of the Linux distributions that he was using. Namely you could type a single command, and it would go out, grab source and install stuff that has been updated (eg the ports system plus some database to allow one to update at will). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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