On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:23:20PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
| On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Henning Brauer wrote:
| >>I wish there was another way to check for outdated ports but there's none.
| >
| >there's a very easy one:
| ># pkg_add -ui
| >with PKG_PATH pointing to an up-to-date pkg mirror.
|
| Yes, but that supposes you only use package provided on the ftp. If you
| compiled a "restricted" package from ports, then you will not know if has
| a security issue or not nor if an updated version is available.
But then you'd also have the ports tree and you'd be compiling these
packages yourself. So then you'd also have the out-of-date script and
you could set up your own ftp server with these restricted packages to
update other machines.
If you don't use the portstree to compile/install packages, you don't
need it to update your installed packages. It makes sense when you
think about it ;)
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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