E-Mail if updates available?

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Mar 30 07:32:24 UTC 2011


Quoting Jo Galara <jogalara at gmail.com> (from Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:31:27 +0200):

> Hi,
>
> on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are
> updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for
> FreeBSD?

If you have portupgrade installed you can change /etc/periodic.conf:
---snip---
weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"
pkg_version="/usr/local/sbin/portversion -O"
pkg_version_index=""
---snip---

This will tell you in the weekly mail about ports which could be updated.

Bye,
Alexander.

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