Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:40:17 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade? Message-ID: <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <20050313200543.B290F4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200503131220.02607.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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Chris Hodgins wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >> On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: >> >>> If I just do: >>> >>> cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u >>> >>> Do I need portupgrade at all then? >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part of portsupgrade package) is a >> nice feature of portupgrade, so is pkg_which and a few others >> so I keep portupgrade around just the same. >> >> -Mike > > > How long does it take to run portmanager. Is it a similar amount of > time as portupgrade for each run? > > Chris The time is about the same (in my experiance) AND (most importantly) portmanager seems to handle upgrading better then portupgrade does. IE: Thunderbird, Gnome, Firefox. Another nifty thing is that portmanager creates a package and dumps it in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird (for example) and at least for me, I can pkg_add that to my laptop since they both run 5.3 -- Best regards, Chris Misery no longer loves company nowdays it insists on it.
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