Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:22:57 -0600 From: Mitja <lumiwa@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster? Message-ID: <200901151822.57876.lumiwa@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <gkobsp$v0a$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090115192516.GA3395@aurora.oekb.co.at> <gkobsp$v0a$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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 outdated port with portupgrade, portmaster will not try to upgrade it 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.
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