Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:53:39 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing and upgrading ports Message-ID: <17718.19971.741532.501250@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <eh5eq4$k7l$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <eh2je9$ed2$1@sea.gmane.org> <20061017104115.B2E4.GERARD@seibercom.net> <4534FE77.3000201@mikestammer.com> <eh5eq4$k7l$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Jonathan Arnold writes: > So there are three competing technologies - portupgrade, > portmaster, and portmanage. And I'm not even sure what any of > them offer over the simple 'make install clean' method. Simple make/make install will take care of upstream dependencies; portupgrade (and probably the others) will also take care of downstream ports. This is particaularly useful in cases like the recent bump of GNOME components. Robert Huff
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