Re: Seriously confused about keeping packages current

[Aleksey Cheusov <vle%gmx.net@localhost>]

 >>  * On 2009-10-03 at 08:50 BST, Paul Newhouse wrote:
 >>  
 >>  > I missed the implication of "TODO".  But, -unq checks all packages NOT
 >>  > just the ones that I have installed.  Guess it's time to write a script
 >>  > to filter out what isn't installed.
 >>  
 >>  pkg_chk -aurn?

> Thanks.

>  pkg_chk -aurn|grep '<'

> seems to show me the installed packages that have newer versions available.

Drammatically faster equivalent:

   pkg_info -X -a > /tmp/1.tmp
   sed -n 's|PKGPATH=||p' /tmp/1.tmp |
   pkg_micro_src_summary -f PKGNAME,PKGPATH > /tmp/2.tmp
   pkg_cmp_summary -p /tmp/1.tmp /tmp/2.tmp | grep '^<'

It even supports multicore CPUs.

See wip/pkg_summary-utils package.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.