Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

[Peter Valchev <pvalchev@openbsd.org>]

Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote:

> Here's a revised patch - with an rc.conf knob that defaults to NO.
..
> +if [ ."$ports_check" = .YES -a -f /usr/ports/INDEX ]; then
> +	echo ""
> +	echo "Checking for out of date packages:"
> +	pkg_version -v |
> +	    sed -n -e 's/^\([^ ]*\)  *<  */  \1 /p' \
> +	    -e '/^[^ ]*-\([^ ]*\)  *\* *multiple versions.*[ ,]\1[,)].*/d' \
> +	    -e 's/^\([^ ]*\)  *\* *multiple versions.*\((.*\)/  \1 needs updating \2/p' \
> +	    -e 's/^\([^ ]*-[^ ]*\)  *? *unknown in index/  \1 is obsolete/p'
>  fi

I did not see what exactly pkg_version did by the time it was in, but
if you still want to apply the above weekly check, I suppose you can use
something similar to:
    pkg_info -e pkgname\* | awk -F'-' '{print $2}' 
to get a package's version number.  The fields are not unique for the
above pattern, but the idea is pkg_info(1)'s -e option -- from there on,
you should be easily able to tweak the output to fit your needs.