From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 9 11:20:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0534937B401; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3DD43E42; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.lonesome.com (cs2876-77.austin.rr.com [24.28.76.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE1C14314; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:20:21 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Linimon Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem in upgrading to latest pkgs Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 14:21:22 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <13739A17-F376-11D6-A579-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr> <200211091338.10008.behanna@zbzoom.net> <200211091856.gA9IuxD4079858@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200211091856.gA9IuxD4079858@intruder.bmah.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211091421.22782.linimon@lonesome.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I distinctly remember adding it to the manpage. This was a nice idea > before portupgrade came along, but too many people managed to shoot > themselves in the foot with it. A solution that is possible is to reword the ports webpage to point out the central role portupgrade plays. I will attempt to create a PR for this. On a very similar note, is portcheckout a less-worthy contender to portupgrade, and if so, should it be deprecated? Mark Linimon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message