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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:10:04 +0100
From:      Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ?
Message-ID:  <4C055B0C.3060704@onetel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100601054216.256514a3@scorpio>
References:  <28736514.post@talk.nabble.com>	<AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com> <20100601054216.256514a3@scorpio>

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Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:26:18 +0300
> Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> articulated:
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis <z_axis@163.com> wrote:
>>> Why do we need two tools ?
>>>
>> Its three. Add portmanager.
>>
>> The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds.
>>
>> Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages when
>> portupgrade could.
> 
> I use portmanager with the '-p' flag for when I absolutely, positively
> have to insure that all dependencies are updated correctly. Neither of
> the other two utilities seem to get it correct 100% of the time. Plus,
> portmanmager is written in 'C' and IMHO is quicker than the other two.
> 
> Just my 2ยข.
> 
+1 for including portmanager in any list of port management tools, just 
doesn't get 'official' sanction for some reason.

Chris



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