Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:50:30 -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: <4234A796.6040705@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <4234A809.7000407@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <20050313200543.B290F4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200503131220.02607.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com> <4234A809.7000407@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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Chris Hodgins wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Excellent. Does it leave packages for everything or is just thunderbird > that does this? > I assume so - I just checked Firefox - and its in there. -- Best regards, Chris The tendency of smoke from a cigarette, barbeque, campfire, etc. to drift into a person's face varies directly with that person's sensitivity to smoke.
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