Re: confusion with pkg_chk -N

[Tyler Retzlaff <rtr%omicron-persei-8.net@localhost>]

On 21/06/2008, at 6:16 PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On 21 Jun 2008, at 04:03, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> > I've just run pkg_chk -N and received the following output.
>
> That looks fine. "pkg_chk -N" checks the "TODO" file for all the  
> package
> that you got installed.

     -N        For each installed package, look if there is a newer  
version
               noted in ${PKGSRCDIR}/doc/TODO.  Good for finding  
packages to
               update.

If taken literally it does imply that it will list "newer" versions  
noted in the TODO for the packages I have installed.  Maybe it should  
say it will list all TODO entries for installed packages...

> > I was hoping this would answer the question of "what packages have  
> > i got installed
> > that are from 2007Q4 that have an equivalent or newer version in  
> > 2008Q1?".
>
> You can use "pkg_chk -u -q" to get a list of packages that were  
> updated.

Great! This seems to do what I wanted.

Thanks