Ports question ....

[Arthur Chance]

On 29/08/2014 13:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> 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 ....

It's in the base system:

fileserver:3# which svnlite
/usr/bin/svnlite