Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:16:40 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <53FF8E28.2010308@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <53FF8860.8000405@gmail.com> References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <53FF8860.8000405@gmail.com>
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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 ....
On 08/28/14 14:52, Jungle Boogie wrote:
> Dear William,
> --------------------------------------------
> From: William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net>
> 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?
>
>>
>
>
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William A. Mahaffey III
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