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To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [REPOST] problem upgrading perl
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Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> writes:

> The first is, which is the best tool for doing updates
> with a preference for using packages rather than rebuilds of ports (a la
> "portupgrade -aP")?

You may take a look at sysutils/bsdadminscripts which use pkg_upgrade
to manage packages.


WBR
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bsam