From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 01:21:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAEE1065670 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f20.google.com (mail-bw0-f20.google.com [209.85.218.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2498FC19 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so4806888bwz.19 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:21:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=+wMq9CKaXMqRySrNRZjHgLZOYBFlaFvgvZh911W1EKM=; b=MAMvl1x65XiAouaCTfZ62b7OAU0LLmX98PrOYnpgHppOwVfuQW0vrjzjgAEBoeY/63 YYHZr99mdtGOWjqu4lGtw7bRWzON+4cOWeFyxLKBX5j/cRxIR6z3MhgS0c3h0WawUCC4 52EbW8jVQhaFSCQP9uGH3ZBXPyB7FY9mYpI0I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=qufe/D/92ixUhCGzLp4PrgDYHcf2MNjZ4xMNmwCNHAXqRmlDCTrpnplYPiAdMXXvZD s7xOdjZBlfa60qddIV6JCNyrJyCyp6EOL9PGiioXfJVBLNcMzCTpyhiCiNZ/nGsC0Z2L Yg0y2y2MxKPMRwmG6b2U/GEuiQZtt4b4dGkkg= Received: by 10.181.199.16 with SMTP id b16mr634871bkq.142.1232068865509; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.14.6 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:21:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <28283d910901151721o10ea4a3bg5e83362049eec1ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:21:05 -0500 From: "matt donovan" To: Mitja In-Reply-To: <200901151822.57876.lumiwa@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20090115192516.GA3395@aurora.oekb.co.at> <200901151822.57876.lumiwa@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:21:07 -0000 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Mitja wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:04:09 Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? > > > > Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages to upgrade > > your system. portmaster can create them (by adding the -g option) - but > > not use them. This is the reason we use portupgrade at work where we > > have several FreeBSD servers which shares /usr/ports. > > > > > Is there also a way back, i.e. from portmaster to portupgrade? > > > > No problem at all. You can even have both installed. If you upgrade your > > outdated port with portupgrade, portmaster will not try to upgrade it > > and vice versa, unless you force it to (which makes no sense). > > I am more than one year FreeBSD user :), started with 7.0 and I have to > used > portupgrade but later I did change to portmaster which I like it but few > day > ago I had a problem (on FreeBSD 7.1) with update. Here is a link to the > FreeBSD forum where I asked about a problem. > Today I installed portupgrade and update was without problem. > > Are there some problem with portmaster on 7.1? > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > believe so since I remember seeing the author talk about patching portmaster.