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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