How can you be notified of software that needs to be updated?

johnblue

johnblue

With the exception of:

a) portaudit mentioning something in the periodic report mailed to root about security related updates and
b) manually scanning the ports tree for out-of-date software

... is there anything else that automates the process of notification?
 
Assuming you use portsnap to update your ports tree, running pkg_version -vL= should give you a nice overview of outdated ports.

You can use my script and run it from cron every day. It does the portsnap update and the pkg_version for you.
 
If you don't need daily reports you can also use

file:/etc/periodic.conf
Code: 
weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"

If you update from time to time a port to an new version (to test and make patches for a PR) the following pkg_version command is usefull since it displays additional which port is more recent
Code: 
pkg_version -voIL=
 
ohauer said:
If you don't need daily reports you can also use

file:/etc/periodic.conf
Code: 
weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES"
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I hate when I miss stuff in man. *sigh* Thanks.
 
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