On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Comète wrote: > 21 novembre 2014 23:00 "John Merriam" <j...@johnmerriam.net> a écrit: >> Hello. I am trying to write a script to check for updates to the binary >> packages by checking the output of pkg_add then sending an e-mail if >> something is found. ... > > Maybe you're looking for this ? > http://www.mtier.org/index.php/solutions/apps/openup/ > > Morgan >
Hmmm. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking for something much simpler though (KISS principle has been good to me in the past). My main question is is there something better than `pkg_add -Iusx | grep -v "^quirks\-"` to check for updates to packages? openup looks to be doing something similar for the update checking portion by using pkg_info output then fed to pkg_add to check for updates. Not sure why it wouldn't just use pkg_add to check for the updates. The code is also kinda odd to me. Seems overly complicated and looks to be doing some things that I'm not so sure I would want to be doing on my machines. Anyway, if there aren't any other tips or suggestions, I'll just go with what I have and adjust if I find issues down the road. Thanks! -- John Merriam
