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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:00:48 -0700
From:      milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        Eric <freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com>
Cc:        ruby@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: making Ruby 1.9 default
Message-ID:  <20110316160048.GM32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C9A64EB6.1DFF2%freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com>
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On 11:25 Wed 16 Mar     , Eric wrote:
> There are plenty of outstanding PRs regarding portupgrade, which does seem
> to suffer from being both loved and unloved (in terms of maintenance).  I
> personally use it, but am wondering if it's time to switch to Doug's
> PortMaster now... However given that portupgrade is often noted in
> documentation as almost the default tool for doing upgrades of ports then it
> does seem sensible that we should all try our best to fix it.

I've been hanging out at #bsdports@efnet and I've gathered that is the
consensus of committers that portupgrade is no longer maintained and
portmaster is the preferred tool. The docs need some patching to reflect
this.

-- 
milki



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