 fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | [FreeBSD] Replacement for portcheck?I used to use this almost daily. What's a good replacement?
I cobbled together this:
clear
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
portaudit
Which works for packages with security issues....but portcheck also used to let me know about ALL updates. Now to acomplish that I have to do a portmaster afterwards.
Anyone have a good recommendation? |
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1 edit | Edit: The option I put forward has also been depreciated. |
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 DerwoodWherever you go, there you arePremium
join:2003-01-21
Dayton, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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My port update script:
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u
rm /root/p-version
/usr/local/sbin/portversion > /root/p-version
Then I portupgrade whatever I want to update that needs it. |
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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:19 | reply to fcisler
I'm not familiar with portcheck; it sounds like what you're looking for is pkg_version -v, which has existed for at least 10 years now, if not longer.
portaudit is for security audits, not "is there new software available"; use the above for the latter.
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Making life hard for others since 1977.
I speak for myself and not my employer/affiliates of my employer. |
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fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | Thanks Derwood!
Thank you, koitsu! This filled the gap. I was familiar with portaudit being used for security audits. I had always used portcheck to check for updates.
My modified replacement for portcheck (which is now a shell script /usr/local/bin/portcheck):
clear
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
pkg_version -v -L =
portaudit
If anyone is interested, the -L = does not show me up to date versions. |
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 ·AT&T Midwest
| said by fcisler:I was familiar with portaudit being used for security audits. I had always used portcheck to check for updates.
My modified replacement for portcheck (which is now a shell script /usr/local/bin/portcheck):
clear
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
pkg_version -v -L =
portaudit
If anyone is interested, the -L = does not show me up to date versions.
If you're just running
portaudit
without any flags you're not updating your vulnerability database. I always run it with the -Fda flags so it downloads the latest database before it runs. |
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fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | thank you for the tip! |
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