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Subject: Re: porteasy vs portupgrade
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Adam J Richardson escribió:
> Miguel wrote:
>> Hi, i used to use portupgrade as using this instructions 
>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>> for doing all the port managing, what about porteasy, it is as  good 
>> as portupgrade?
>> i think porteasy is not as popular as portupgrade.
>> thanks
>
> Hi Miguel,
>
> I use portupgrade and portsnap, a combination which seems to work 
> fine. The only thing that annoys me about portupgrade is that it's 
> written in Ruby, and when it's time for an upgrade I always have to 
> upgrade the Ruby compiler as well. Upgrading Ruby just takes forever 
> on these old battered beige boxes.
>

you are absolutly right, portsnap + portupgrade,
thakns