portversion not working ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:02:01AM -0700, RJ45 wrote:
> 
> when I run portversion -v to check against current pacakges installed and
> the up to date versions many packages are reported as up to date but there
> is a new versio nin hte ports avaliable.
> this happened for example with freetype.
> 
> I had
> 
> freetype2-2.1.5_2  =  up-to-date with port
> 
> i did a portupgrade freetype2-2.1.5_2
> 
> and the result now is
> 
> freetype2-2.1.7_2           >  succeeds port (port has 2.1.5_2)
> 
> 
> anyone has some hint for me?

See the manpage - portversion refers to the INDEX file for comparing
versions, which means it will be out of date unless you have just
built one yourself.

Kris
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