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Date:      Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:26 +0000
From:      Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade questions
Message-ID:  <4730B7EA.3070206@onetel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071105055724.N17994@wonkity.com>
References:  <BAY114-W1198B68AE765DD630D744BBB8F0@phx.gbl><20071105135017.76a2c48a@meijome.net>	<20071105070952.50ba2f37@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>	<000c01c81f93$344c2c40$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> <20071105055724.N17994@wonkity.com>

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Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
> 
>> A total noob here with FreeBSD, but am liking it so far. I went to run 
>> portupgrade for the first time and encountered quite a few problems. I 
>> have googled around and found some of my answers, but it's been slow 
>> going. For example:
>>
>> cairo# portupgrade -aF
> 
> The thing you should be doing first is checking /usr/ports/UPDATING. 
> Major things can change, and portupgrade may not be able to handle them 
> without help.

You could try portmanager, it seems to handle most things so it's great
for lazy people (like me :)

Port:   portmanager-0.4.1_9
Path:   /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager

Chris




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