Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:21:05 -0500 From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: Mitja <lumiwa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster? Message-ID: <28283d910901151721o10ea4a3bg5e83362049eec1ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901151822.57876.lumiwa@gmail.com> References: <20090115192516.GA3395@aurora.oekb.co.at> <gkobsp$v0a$1@ger.gmane.org> <200901151822.57876.lumiwa@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Mitja <lumiwa@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 outdated port with portupgrade, portmaster will not try to upgrade it 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > believe so since I remember seeing the author talk about patching portmaster.
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