First off: not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me or I
won't see your answers! :)
Oh, and I use portsnap, in crontab:
0 19 * * * portsnap -I cron update
So, long story short:
[r...@chaos ~]# pkgdb -aF
---> Checking the package registry database
[r...@chaos ~]# portversion -l '<'
dnsmasq <
ezm3 <
libtool <
python26 <
[r...@chaos ~]# pkg_version | awk '$2 !~ /=/'
[r...@chaos ~]# portupgrade -a
[r...@chaos ~]#
... How do I figure out which is correct, and which/what should I use
in my crontab to check for out-of-date packages? I'm pretty new to
FreeBSD (testing use since May, but I've used it briefly before), but
have almost 10 years of Linux experience, mostly Gentoo, so I'm not
new to *nix-like OS's, not to mention that Gentoo's portage is based
on FreeBSD ports - except that it has an official interface (i.e.
emerge), rather than portupgrade, portmaster, portmanager, etc. A bit
of a mess in my outsider opinion. ;)
I don't care overly much about having the bleeding-edge version, but
I'd rather not, as I currently have, use packages with known
vulnerabilities (I do know about portaudit, though, and will give that
a check). For instance, I just noticed yesterday that I needed to
upgrade apr, among about 6-7 other packages; the apr vulnerability had
been known for a while before I updated.
Regards,
Thomas
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