From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 09:08:59 2004 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 1076B16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:08:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from omega.noc.uk.easynet.net (omega.noc.uk.easynet.net [212.135.8.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B245E43D46 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:08:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net) Received: from aedwards by omega.noc.uk.easynet.net with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BchGn-0002wt-1Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:45 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:45 +0100 From: Anthony Edwards To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040622090845.GA8652@omega.noc.uk.easynet.net> References: <1087831102.2421.21.camel@localhost> <20040621125916.6e567ad6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040621125916.6e567ad6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: easynet Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Subject: Re: package managment 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: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:08:59 -0000 On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:59:16PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Note that portupgrade gives you two specific options for upgrading: using a > package to upgrade, or upgrading from the ports collection. It depends on > what options you give it. Software installed from ports is normally newer, > while installing from packages goes faster because you don't have to wait > for the software to compile. As a relatively new FreeBSD user (it took me a day or so to figure this out myself), I would point out for completeness that portupgrade needs to be used in conjunction with a regular CVSup of the ports tree, as explained (briefly) in "4.5.1 Obtaining the Ports Collection" of the FreeBSD Handbook, and (in detail) in "A.5 Using CVSup". http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html This process is actually very simple, and gives somewhat similar functionality to that of apt-get update & apt-get upgrade, with which Debian users will be familiar. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net