Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:42:16 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ? Message-ID: <20100601054216.256514a3@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com> References: <28736514.post@talk.nabble.com> <AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:26:18 +0300 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> articulated: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis <z_axis@163.com> wrote: > > > > Why do we need two tools ? > > > Its three. Add portmanager. > > The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds. > > Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages when > portupgrade could. I use portmanager with the '-p' flag for when I absolutely, positively have to insure that all dependencies are updated correctly. Neither of the other two utilities seem to get it correct 100% of the time. Plus, portmanmager is written in 'C' and IMHO is quicker than the other two. Just my 2ยข. -- Jerry FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ INTOXICATED: When you feel sophisticated without being able to pronounce it.
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