> Hopefully this isn't off-topic as I assume a lot of you use
> sunfreeware.com ... I'm trying to determine how to a) best identify
> which of my installed packages came from sunfreeware, and b) be able to
> track when an update is available.
>
> It seems like a lot of the sunfreeware packages end up with a 'SMC'
> prefix, but maybe 'SFW' too?
>
> How do you guys track this?
>
> I'm hoping I can extract version information and compare with packages
> on the sunfreeware site to automatically determine if an update is
> available.
Try the following :
$ pkginfo | grep -v SUNW | grep -v CSW | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs pkginfo -l
That will ignore all software from Sun and from Blastwave and then dump out
the verbose ( long ) info about the package. Don't be surprised if you see
stuff like this :
PKGINST: TSIpgxw
NAME: PGX32 (Raptor GFX) X Window System Support v4.0
CATEGORY: application,graphics
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 10.0.0,REV=2004.11.18
BASEDIR: /usr
VENDOR: Tech-Source Inc.
DESC: X Server loadable module for PGX32 (Raptor GFX) graphics
accelerator
PSTAMP: sun20041117142547
INSTDATE: Aug 08 2005 13:08
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 14 installed pathnames
9 shared pathnames
8 directories
2 executables
1 setuid/setgid executables
1193 blocks used (approx)
That is still software from Sun but it doesn't have the SUNW in front of the
package name.
Dennis Clarke
Blastwave.org
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