Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:44:51 -0600 From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup vs. portupgrade Message-ID: <200404021944.51126.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040403013246.GA9839@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200404021927.31132.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <20040403013246.GA9839@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 02 April 2004 07:32 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Reading from the FreeBSD handbook on "Using the Ports Collection" leaves > > me a bit confused wrt CVSup and portupgrade... do these utilities > > accomplish the same thing? > > No, cvsup updates the files that make up the ports collection, > portupgrade takes them and uses them to rebuild the ports you have > installed. That makes sense - at the risk of sounding like I know what I'm doing, what would be the best way for me to submit a change to the handbook that says that? Thanks, Jay
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