Ports question ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Fri Aug 29 13:37:31 UTC 2014


On 08/29/14 08:09, Cristiano Deana wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
>> I have been using portsnap, I just couldn't figure out how to get it to tell
>> me what ports had been updated since I last fetched (w/o fetching again)
> That's not how it works.
> portsnap update THE PORTS' TREE, not the installed ports. AFTER you
> have update your ports tree, you can run
> portversion -v | grep '<'
> to show which ports you have INSTALLED has some update.



Very well, thx, I wasn't clear on that, still a noob to pkg-management 
in FBSD :-/ ....


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