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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:39:23 -0400
From:      Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portmanager or portupgrade?
Message-ID:  <20070321083533.A87F.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50703210519j54a297a1g8f076bb6e91646cf@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <92bcbda50703210519j54a297a1g8f076bb6e91646cf@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday March 21, 2007 at 08:19:38 (AM) n j wrote:


> first off, I'm looking for a ports upgrading solution on my box, not
> trying to start a religious debate over which one is better. I'm
> interested in hearing what other FreeBSD admins are using and, if
> possible, why they prefer one over the other. I have some experience
> with portupgrade only, but I see more and more people talk about
> portmanager, so I thought it would be good to hear what others use.

I use portmanager and find it quite effective at updating the system. It
has a conf file similar to portupgrade. In fact, it can use the
portupgrade file.
> 
> On a related note, is portmaster comparable to the previous two?

I found it to be slow and not as through at updating ports with broken
dependencies; however, that was using one of the original versions of
the program. I understand it has improved.

-- 
Gerard



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