What's the definition of the stale port?

[Chuck Swiger]

Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> On 2005-04-07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
[ ... ]
>>> How do I end up having stale ports?
>>
>> As time marches on :-)
> 
> I am guessing, that port becomes stale after running cvsup.

When a new version of a port is committed, anyone running the older version 
has a stale version.  Whether you run cvsup or not doesn't affect whether a 
new version is available, but you are a lot more likely to notice dependency 
issues after running cvsup.

> So, what exactly are we supposed to accomplish in respect to stale
> ports, when we run pkgdb -F (deinstall, some kind of fix, simple
> ignore)?

pkgdb tries to update the dependencies when new versions of a port appear. 
Running pkgdb by itself is not especially useful, although you can check and 
rebuild updated ports by hand.  Consider portupgrade instead....

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-Chuck