Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

[Jonathan Horne]

Quoting RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com>:

> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:53:48 +1300
> Brett Davidson <brett at net24.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, how
>> could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were
>> actually installed?
>>
>> Is there a simple command or sequence of commands to do this?
>>
> see pkg_version[1]
> _______________________________________________

after i update my ports, and i want to see what currently needs to be updated:

pkg_version -v|grep needs

this will give you a run down of everything that has a newer version  
in your ports tree.
-- 
Jonathan Horne
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
freebsd at dfwlp.com

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