"portmanager -s" deletes ports?
RW
fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Wed May 23 02:15:09 UTC 2007
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:39:33 +0200
Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> i use
>
> # portmanager -s|grep OLD | sort -t: -k2
>
> occasionally to see which ports need upgrading. Ports tree is
> cvsup'ed each night.
>
> I then noticed that almost *all* X11 manpages had been deleted. :-(
>
> The portmanager manpage reads:
>
> o -s or --status
> status of installed ports
>
> My Question: how is it possible that this command *deletes* any ports?
> I am aware that there have been big changes to X11 recently, but
> nevertheless, something like this should not happen.
That port has been removed from the tree. Portmanger will prompt you to
remove it and then do it automatically after a timeout. It's not really
intended to be machine-readable output.
pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports.
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