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freebsd-update-notify Notify desktop user when FreeBSD updates are available
0.1.1.11 deskutils Σ=1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.1.1.11Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jwb@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-07-31 15:27:06
Last Update: 2024-11-19 00:16:24
Commit Hash: 0569f9b
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/outpaddling/freebsd-update-notify
Description: #
Freebsd-update-notify is a script invoked by cron to check for available updates and issue popup notification on the desktop. The user can elect to install and reboot or ignore them for now.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages: #
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist #
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  1. libexec/freebsd-update-notify
  2. libexec/freebsd-update-cron
  3. share/man/man8/freebsd-update-notify.8.gz
  4. @sample etc/freebsd-update-notify/freebsd-update-notify.conf.sample
  5. @sample etc/freebsd-update-notify/freebsd-update-notify.crontab.sample etc/cron.d/freebsd-update-notify
  6. @dir etc/cron.d
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/freebsd-update-notify-0.1.1.11/catalog.mk
  8. /usr/local/share/licenses/freebsd-update-notify-0.1.1.11/LICENSE
  9. /usr/local/share/licenses/freebsd-update-notify-0.1.1.11/BSD2CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • freebsd-update-notify>0:deskutils/freebsd-update-notify
To install the port: #
cd /usr/ports/deskutils/freebsd-update-notify/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install deskutils/freebsd-update-notify
  • pkg install freebsd-update-notify
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: freebsd-update-notify
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. #
distinfo: #
TIMESTAMP = 1731973647 SHA256 (outpaddling-freebsd-update-notify-0.1.1-11-g2d7b872_GH0.tar.gz) = 0fd16d4d355843c5af225446dc89c5293585c6b1e13f28db636e9976531eb4ad SIZE (outpaddling-freebsd-update-notify-0.1.1-11-g2d7b872_GH0.tar.gz) = 4383
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
freebsd-update-notify
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest0.1.1.110.1.1.11-0.1.1.110.1.1.11
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.1.1.110.1.1.11-0.1.1.110.1.1.11
FreeBSD:15:latest0.1.1.110.1.1.11n/a0.1.1.11n/a
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.1.1.110.1.1.11n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest0.1.1.110.1.1.11n/a-n/a
Dependencies #
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Runtime dependencies: #
  1. zenity : x11/zenity
  2. auto-admin>=0.8.0 : sysutils/auto-admin
  3. rxvt-unicode>0 : x11/rxvt-unicode
  4. xwininfo>0 : x11/xwininfo
  5. xhost>0 : x11/xhost
There are no ports dependent upon this port #
Configuration Options: #
No options to configure
Options name: #
deskutils_freebsd-update-notify
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message #
Master Sites: #
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/outpaddling/freebsd-update-notify/tar.gz/0.1.1-11-g2d7b872?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 9 #

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.1.1.11
19 Nov 2024 00:16:24
commit hash: 0569f9b878c01ad2ee7c9452c3f946644e6b88e4commit hash: 0569f9b878c01ad2ee7c9452c3f946644e6b88e4commit hash: 0569f9b878c01ad2ee7c9452c3f946644e6b88e4commit hash: 0569f9b878c01ad2ee7c9452c3f946644e6b88e4 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1.11

Absolute pathnames for all commands under su
Add missing deps, to function independently of desktop-installer
0.1.1.8
17 Nov 2024 15:34:02
commit hash: 1d5f35837c784a4a281331b00ab48ac9e66db273commit hash: 1d5f35837c784a4a281331b00ab48ac9e66db273commit hash: 1d5f35837c784a4a281331b00ab48ac9e66db273commit hash: 1d5f35837c784a4a281331b00ab48ac9e66db273 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1.8

Fix intermittent display access issue: su -l xhost + -> su -m xhost +
Fix premature exit when auto-update-system has never been run

Reported by:    ykla@github
0.1.1.7
17 Nov 2024 12:55:16
commit hash: 1e15e2444825d4a8a848ff53230ea6f55e767162commit hash: 1e15e2444825d4a8a848ff53230ea6f55e767162commit hash: 1e15e2444825d4a8a848ff53230ea6f55e767162commit hash: 1e15e2444825d4a8a848ff53230ea6f55e767162 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1.7

Add missing rxvt-unicode dep
Change default max update period from 7 to 14 days

Reported by:    ykla@github
0.1.1.6
20 Jun 2024 20:27:10
commit hash: 1c73998d32400b38d0f91310545e24bbbbad9bb2commit hash: 1c73998d32400b38d0f91310545e24bbbbad9bb2commit hash: 1c73998d32400b38d0f91310545e24bbbbad9bb2commit hash: 1c73998d32400b38d0f91310545e24bbbbad9bb2 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1.6

Respect hours_between_reminders when base updates are available
0.1.1.2_2
12 Jan 2024 15:11:29
commit hash: d4329229fbe8ad0a96a1b9ec796d17cf512455d1commit hash: d4329229fbe8ad0a96a1b9ec796d17cf512455d1commit hash: d4329229fbe8ad0a96a1b9ec796d17cf512455d1commit hash: d4329229fbe8ad0a96a1b9ec796d17cf512455d1 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
MANPREFIX: eliminate its usage

While here move manpages to share/man
0.1.1.2_1
23 Oct 2023 11:16:56
commit hash: 01c8e583c9277147de008943ced4a6a79697d720commit hash: 01c8e583c9277147de008943ced4a6a79697d720commit hash: 01c8e583c9277147de008943ced4a6a79697d720commit hash: 01c8e583c9277147de008943ced4a6a79697d720 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Bump auto-admin dep version

Ensure users have the latest auto-admin bug fixes
0.1.1.2
30 Aug 2023 16:39:11
commit hash: d276cdd564ab3a4ae464c07800da6d2c1cad7cfbcommit hash: d276cdd564ab3a4ae464c07800da6d2c1cad7cfbcommit hash: d276cdd564ab3a4ae464c07800da6d2c1cad7cfbcommit hash: d276cdd564ab3a4ae464c07800da6d2c1cad7cfb files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1.2

Use time stamp from auto-update-system
Let auto-update-system handle rebooting
0.1.1
09 Aug 2023 13:43:49
commit hash: 691d5857000a87885d7b785374edd1df81793d37commit hash: 691d5857000a87885d7b785374edd1df81793d37commit hash: 691d5857000a87885d7b785374edd1df81793d37commit hash: 691d5857000a87885d7b785374edd1df81793d37 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Update to 0.1.1

Add man page
Add --pause to auto-update-system invocation
Allow user to configure max days between updates
Check every hour and add separate configurable reminder delay
0.1.0.2
31 Jul 2023 15:24:35
commit hash: abf65f917805960ad0e90c12334d01b8929db2f0commit hash: abf65f917805960ad0e90c12334d01b8929db2f0commit hash: abf65f917805960ad0e90c12334d01b8929db2f0commit hash: abf65f917805960ad0e90c12334d01b8929db2f0 files touched by this commit		 Jason W. Bacon (jwb) search for other commits by this committer 
deskutils/freebsd-update-notify: Desktop notification for av. updates

Freebsd-update-notify is a script invoked by cron to check for
available updates and issue popup notification on the desktop.  The
user can elect to install and reboot or ignore them for now.

Number of commits found: 9

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