From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 12:39:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556A516A415 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:39:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4FA13C455 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:39:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so252872wxc for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr1933229agz.1174480751452; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 67sm2019465wra.2007.03.21.05.39.10; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:39:23 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50703210519j54a297a1g8f076bb6e91646cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <92bcbda50703210519j54a297a1g8f076bb6e91646cf@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070321083533.A87F.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.04 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: portmanager or portupgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:39:12 -0000 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