RW wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:39:33 +0200
Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of
installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. I consider this
a severe bug. Luckily, this was on a server system where X11 is not
crucial. I really don't want to imagine the hassle i would have had if
portmanager had removed exim or apache or samba or ...
pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports.
Thanks for this hint :-)
--Heinrich
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