Software Update

[Chris Brennan]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:

> On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500
>> Chris Brennan<xaero at xaerolimit.net>  wrote:
>>
>>  My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is
>>> weather this pulls updates from packages or ports.
>>>
>>
>> There are a few applications, such as opera, that can "phone home" and
>> check for newer versions. Typically they can't upgrade because they lack
>> privileges.
>>
>> Perhaps you could be a little less vague.
>>
>
> Software Update is provided by gnome-packagekit (or the kde equivalent) and
> will nag if updated packages are available.
>
> To the op, according to
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-September/057056.htmlPackageKit was given support for ports using portupgrade or portaudit.
>
>
Thanks Steven, that's what I was looking for.