Determining changes made by port sync

[Chris Jones]

Depends. I work with a full git clone of the ports tree so I see that 
being updated and the subsequent portindex running on it.

On 31/08/18 10:30, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> Thanks, Chris. What should I see in the output if ports were updated vs. 
> if no changes occurred?
> 
> On Friday, August 31, 2018, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk 
> <mailto:jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      > sudo port -d sync
> 
>     On 31/08/18 10:22, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         Is there any way to determine whether a run of port sync or port
>         selfupdate actually updated any ports? Though it would be nice,
>         I don't necessarily need to know which ports were updated, just
>         whether or not *any* ports were updated.
> 
>         Thanks.
>