Ports question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/28/14 17:40, Jungle Boogie wrote:
> Dear William,
> --------------------------------------------
> From: William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
> Sent:  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:12:11 -0500
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Ports question ....
>>
>> On 08/28/14 15:31, Andrew Berg wrote:
>>> On 2014.08.28 15:16, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>> 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 ....
>>> The ports tree is updated whenever someone makes a commit to update/fix a port,
>>> or to update/fix the ports infrastructure. Given its size, this means frequency
>>> is on the order of minutes. Portsnap and Subversion will both list any changes
>>> you pull in when you update your copy.
>>>
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/?sortby=date#dirlist
>> Is there a way to get the list of changes since I last pulled it down w/o
>> actually doing the download ? That way, if nothing I needed was upgraded, I
>> could spend the time elsewhere ....
>>
> So you want to know what changes occurred without actually getting anything?
> As I explained, updating your ports directory doesn't actually update your
> installed applications. So I recommend following the link that Andrew provided.
>
> If you're concerned about time, install and use tmux[0] and just wait for
> portsnap fetch update to complete.
>
> Is there any reason you NEED to use ports? Are you setting special
> configuration options? Have you tried out packages yet?
>
> Thanks,
> Jungle
>
> [0] http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-tmux
>

Trying to get flash support working needs ports, no pkg's available .... 
I am using pkg for *everything* possible, but flash needs ports ....

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