From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 18:50:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 3E2E416A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4692743FE1 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h8S1AS9u015309; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:10:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: Alex de Kruijff Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:04:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309271659.50019.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> <20030927234350.GB94873@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030927234350.GB94873@dds.nl> X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309272104.47949.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port installation methods X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:50:13 -0000 On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:43 pm, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > If you've just installed a fresh FreeBSD system then there isn't > much difference. I offten use the make method in this case. But I > switch to portinstall and portupgrade if I a) have updated /usr/ports > and b) have installed any port or package. The reason for this is > that portinstall and portupgrade have a better port management > system. This package/port detects for you changes. With out the > portupgrade package you will find that multiple version of the same > packages will be registered and only one is installed. (There is only > one installed because each override the other fysicaly in /usr/local > and /usr/X11R6 but not in the regerstry.) I see. I have already run into that (having 2 versions of a package registered but only one installed). I have recently started using portinstall for installing ports. I have been using portupgrade for a while now. It seems to me that portinstall (as you indicated) is better at finding and fixing dependency issues as well. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato