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[Troels Kofoed Jacobsen]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:55:57PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Troels Kofoed Jacobsen
> <tkjacobsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > With pkg_version I can easily see which installed ports has newer
> > versions available, but what I miss is a way to see what has changed.
> > The reason for this is that commit messages often say that only the
> > pkg-plist has changed or something that does not make me want to update.
> >
> > Right now I'm reading the commit messages from the cvs web frontend, but
> > it would be awesome with a program that could say:
> > gd-2.0.35_1,1 <   needs updating (index has 2.0.35_2,1)
> > Commit messages between the versions:
> > blah blah blah
> > blah ... ...
> > ...
> >
> > I know freshports exist, but I would rather not have to open a web
> > browser.
> >
> > Does such a program exist or do I have to write my own. In the latter
> > case can anyone point me to an easy way to get raw-text versions of
> > commit messages without having to track the whole tree. Does freshports
> > e.g. have an api -- it has all the necessary information, just not
> > available in a suitable form (to my knowledge)
> >
> > Best regards
> > Troels Kofoed Jacobsen
> 
> I asked this question some time ago and never got a response. I
> currently just use a browser and visit www.freebsd.org/ports/ and read
> the commit log there. So far, I haven't found any other alternative.

If anyone's interested I've hacked together a small python script doing
this:
https://www.student.dtu.dk/~s052580/?page=software/commitmessages

Best regards
Troels Kofoed Jacobsen