Ports question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/28/14 17:51, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:43:49PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... How do I check to see if the ports collection has been updated ? I
>> had some problems a week or so ago getting some stuff to compile. There
>> were some later posts alluding to some ports being a bit stale .... If
>> that was my problem, I'd like to update & try again ....
> The http://www.freshports.org/ site gives a nice overview of recent port
> changes. It also lists the SVN revision. If you use subversion to keep your
> ports tree up to date you can check the state of your ports tree with;
>
>      > svnlite log -r HEAD /usr/ports/
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      r366459 | danilo | 2014-08-29 00:34:41 +0200 (Fri, 29 Aug 2014) | 2 lines
>
>      - Update from 1.40.01 to 1.40.02
>
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In this case my ports tree is at r366459.
>
> Generally I like to update my ports tree weekly. That *generally* makes for
> relatively small updates using svnlite (in the base system in FreeBSD 10) and
> ports-mgmt/portmaster;
>
>      # svnlite /usr/ports
>      # less /usr/ports/UPDATING
>      # portmaster -ai
>
> Reading UPDATING is important! Sometimes updates need special actions.
>
> Roland

This sounds like it is very close to what I am looking for. I typed in 
the above command & the shell said command not found .... What pkg('s) 
do I need for svnlite support ? TIA ....


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