Detecting updates to ports not installed

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Thu Dec 30 20:09:01 UTC 2010


Quoth Matthew Seaman on Thursday, 30 December 2010:
> On 30/12/2010 18:51, Chip Camden wrote:
> > The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version
> > updates, but not all.  I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates
> > for chromium (e.g.).  But perhaps I'm just missing the appropriate link.
> > 
> 
> If you make yourself an account at freshports.org, you can create a
> watchlist.  You place whatever ports interest you on it, and you'll get
> e-mail any time a change to that port is committed.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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Bingo!  Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.  Although it took a while
to figure out how to do it.  Suggestion for Freshports:  add an "add to
watch list" button on the page for each port.

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