Create list of ports to update

[Carmel NY]

On Monday, December 4, 2017 5:38 AM, Matthew Seaman stated:
> On 03/12/2017 16:40, Carmel NY wrote:
> > Reading up on "poudriere", it appears that I have to feed it a list of
> > ports that need to be updated. Unlike "synth" which can figure that
> > out by itself, it does seem counterproductive.
> >
> > My question, now that "portmaster" is apparently dead in the water,
> > what is the easiest way to construct a list of ports that need updating in
> the:
> > "port-category/port-name" format?
> 
> With poudriere, what you're doing is populating a repository.  You tell
> poudriere what ports you want available, and it will build packages for each
> of them, plus all their dependencies and then create a repository from all
> those packages.  Then later on you can update by running 'poudriere bulk'
> and it will work out what has been updated since the last time, and rebuild
> only those packages.
> 
> To create a list of packages to feed into poudriere, try:
> 
>   %  pkg query -e '%a == 0' %o
> 
> That gives you a list of all the packages you installed directly, omitting
> anything installed just as a dependency.  All the dependencies will be built
> automatically and available in your repo; not listing them explicitly in the list
> passed to poudriere is a small optimization that helps avoid some occasional
> errors when packages get removed or renamed.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew

Thanks, that reduced the number of ports from 212 to 35. Now, if I could just
figure out how to get the HTML crap working, I would be a happy camper.

-- 
Carmel
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