From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 09:26:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A67A16A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA49343D45 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip04.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.20]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IU000DSB4X9D5N2@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:27:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.101]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip04.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:26:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:26:44 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <200602011133.53031.kjelderg@gmail.com> To: Eric Kjeldergaard Message-id: <43E07ED4.508@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <93676E29-4F0E-40DC-904C-225A859D0B78@u.washington.edu> <200602010156.57750.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200602011133.53031.kjelderg@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060120 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RW Subject: Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:26:55 -0000 Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:56、RW さんは書きました: > >>On Tuesday 31 January 2006 17:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >>>On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: >>> >>>portupgrade: Use for updating your actual ports programs. >>> >>> There may be a more elegant solution though and I would be more than >>>happy to hear it too :). >>>-Garrett >> >>I find that portmanager generally does a better job at keeping ports up to >>date without manual intervention. A notable example being its ability to >>upgrade Gnome without the help of a script. > > > I also found portupgrade both more capable in many cases and more easy-to-use > (just portmanager -u to do what one "usually" wants to do). Too bad it was > pulled from ports. > Hi everyone, I just checked the change log for portmanager. It appears the author has re-given permission to redistribute it. --Duane Whitty