Subject: Re: pkg_chk changes to show pkgsrc directory
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/14/2006 16:22:32
 	I've been pondering changing the default output to something
 	very similar - possibly of the order of:

 	    devel/readline - readline-5.1pl1nb1 != readline-5.0

 	what do people think about the format change?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Greg Troxel wrote:

>
> I have a local patch to pkgsrc which adds a -d option.  When enabled,
> mismatched packages are preceded by the pkgsrc directory:
>
> devel/readline readline-5.1pl1nb1: version mismatch - readline-5.0
>
> I find this useful because doing 'make update' is too scary, and I
> prefer make replace.  I scan the list for what I want to update and
> use the following shell functions, one of which depends on having the
> directory:

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