Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?
Chris Whitehouse
cwhiteh at onetel.com
Mon Dec 1 14:57:24 PST 2008
Robert Huff wrote:
> RW writes:
>
>> > Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have
>> > been done on a system? I did a "portupgrade -arR" recently and want to
>> > know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't
>> > run that portupgrade under "script"...)
>>
>> pkg_glob(1) can show package installed before or after either a time
>> or a particular port.
>
> One can also send the output to a file, and grep your chosen
> ports or use "tail -f".
> I do not recommend doing this with "portupgrade -a" unless you
> know the list will be fairly short. (Imagine rebuilding OpenOffice,
> KDE, Java, FireFox, ....)
>
For future upgrades, portmanager (ports-mgmt/portmanager) will log if
you tell it to, alternatively you can make it tell you what ports need
updating and why, without actually upgrading anything.
chris
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