From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 10:03:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6543D1065710; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938D8FC1A; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q3CA3g2h015207 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:03:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q3CA3g2h015207 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q3CA3g2h015207; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none Message-ID: <4F86A87D.7030309@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:03:41 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Rees References: <4F863615.80203@shatow.net> <4F864EEE.4010508@p6m7g8.com> <4F869CD2.2040702@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig750BE61CA8D66842959B11F2" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Chris Whitehouse Subject: Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:03:46 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig750BE61CA8D66842959B11F2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/04/2012 10:57, Chris Rees wrote: >> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that portm= anager >> > is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does what it does e= xtremely >> > well and without fuss. I think the fact that it still "just works" a= fter all >> > this time is a mark of it's worth. > Unfortunately, many of us do not find that it 'just works'. There is > no-one to ask for support, so people resort to asking ports@ or in > IRC. >=20 > It is also unmaintained, and has many bugs against it: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=3Dportupgrade He said *portmanager* There aren't any open PRs against portmanager and it has a maintainer. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig750BE61CA8D66842959B11F2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+GqH4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyd8wCggucVHMK038AfnLbzsBpvOxs7 VosAmwTqMOk6S09LQlDGrI3CpJnsK65X =eqn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig750BE61CA8D66842959B11F2--