Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:20:16 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Todd Stephens <tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port installation methods Message-ID: <20030928172016.GA16451@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <200309272104.47949.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> References: <200309271659.50019.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> <20030927234350.GB94873@dds.nl> <200309272104.47949.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com>
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:04:47PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > 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. > There port also include special tools to rebuild your regerstry. I have this running by default after updating my cvs sources. The tool is called portsdb (options -uU). I run portsclean (options -DLP) to remove distfiles, libiaries and packages that are no longer needed. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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