> On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:41 AM, David Southwell wrote: > > I was thinking of something which is far more comprehensive and > > systematic. Whilst installed options are obtained by examining > > /var/db/ports the files do not do not provide the detailed historical > > information which I envisage. > > Correct. Unless you've taken good backups, nothing else currently > preserves all of the historical information you envision, but you can at > least get some of the requested info just out of the current filesystem. > > > The freshports/freebsd sites will tell us when the distributed ports tree > > was changed but does not provide a historical record of changes to the > > local ports tree. > > Also correct. Again, short of having periodic backups made at sufficiently > rapid intervals, there is no way to track that information over time. > > Regards, Seems to me that a comprehensive record would be extremely useful on a local system. I am wondering how difficult it might be to collect data from applications such as: cvsup of ports tree portupgrade/portmaster changes to /var/db/ports changes to /usr/ports/distfiles
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