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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:42:58 -0500
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        Johnny Choque <jchoque@tlmat.unican.es>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade
Message-ID:  <44EDE522.8030307@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <007f01c6c799$81e9e170$2bba90c1@Altair>
References:  <007f01c6c799$81e9e170$2bba90c1@Altair>

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Johnny Choque wrote:
>> portmanager -u -l
>>
>> It will save you time and trouble. It also assumes you have 
>> 'portmanager'
>> installed. Portsnap is part of the base system.
> 
> I'm newbie in Freebsd and initially I have use cvsup and portupgrade. I
> haven't clear what is the difference to use portupgrade, portsnap,
> portmanager, and other ones? Could you recommend us one of them?
> 
> Johnny

portsnap and portmaster are the best 2 IMO. both work and work well
without a lot of extra stuff to install like ruby, etc. and are updated
often



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