Ports question ....

[Jungle Boogie]

Dear William,
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From: William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
Sent:  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:16:40 -0500
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ports question ....
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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 ....

0. Please learn how to bottom post.

1. Ports are updated once the maintainer makes an update to the application.
There's 24,000+ ports and some are not updated every week while others may be.
I usually use packages now (precompiled ports) so I don't usually update my
ports list (portsnap fetch update) unless I need to. Keep in mind that
updating your ports list/directory doesn't mean the new software will be
installed.

Read this: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ports

In fact, most of your emails could likely be answered (or give you clues) if
you watched/listened/read the tutorials section at:
http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/




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> On 08/28/14 14:52, Jungle Boogie wrote:
>> Dear William,
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>> From: William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
>> Sent:  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:43:49 -0500
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Ports question ....
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>>> .... 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
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>> Above is my update, which may or may not be identical to yours so read
>> carefully on your system.
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>> Is that what you're asking?
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