Ports - installation & upgrade history

[Chuck Swiger]

On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:24 AM, David Southwell wrote:
> Something fairly comprehensive that would enable one to see when a port was 
> first installed, its original version number, when it was 
> upgraded/deinstalled/reinstalled and subsequent changes to the installed 
> version. Maybe also time/date when a port tree was updated and which ports 
> were affected by those updates.


You can gather some information by:

  ls -ltr /var/db/ports

For full information about all of the changes to the ports tree, you'd need to take a look at the CVS history, perhaps via:

  http://www.freshports.org/
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck