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.Dd February 18, 2009
.Dt PKG_NOTIFY 1
.Sh NAME
.Nm pkg_notify
.Nd Notifies package maintainer when a new version is available
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl c Ar list-file
.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
notifies package maintainers when a new version of the software
is available.
.Pp
In order to use
.Nm ,
create the
.Pa @PKG_SYSCONFDIR@/pkg_notify.list
file containing the package list you want to be informed on.
The file contains a list of
.Pa category/package
pairs, one per line.
For example:
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset 0
audio/bmp
devel/ncurses
x11/xbindkeys
.Ed
.Pp
The following option may be used:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar list-file
Use
.Ar list-file
as the file containing the package list.
.El
.Pp
Otherwise,
.Nm
can be called with a list of packages to be checked as arguments.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Pa http://www.pkgsrc.org/
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Emile "iMil" Heitor Aq Mt imil@gcu.info
.An Stoned Elipot Aq Mt seb@NetBSD.org