Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:23:11 -0400 From: "Maxim Khitrov" <mkhitrov@gmail.com> To: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: porteasy vs portupgrade Message-ID: <26ddd1750707260823s7a7de6e7k59ac18b5e1216d94@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46A8B301.7080903@mikestammer.com> References: <46A7E417.5040800@123.com.sv> <46A8144C.7010503@crackmonkey.us> <46A8B49C.6070903@123.com.sv> <46A8B301.7080903@mikestammer.com>
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On 7/26/07, Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> wrote: > Miguel wrote: > > Adam J Richardson escribió: > >> Miguel wrote: > >>> Hi, i used to use portupgrade as using this instructions > >>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > >>> for doing all the port managing, what about porteasy, it is as good > >>> as portupgrade? > >>> i think porteasy is not as popular as portupgrade. > >>> thanks > >> > >> Hi Miguel, > >> > >> I use portupgrade and portsnap, a combination which seems to work > >> fine. The only thing that annoys me about portupgrade is that it's > >> written in Ruby, and when it's time for an upgrade I always have to > >> upgrade the Ruby compiler as well. Upgrading Ruby just takes forever > >> on these old battered beige boxes. > >> > > > > you are absolutly right, portsnap + portupgrade, > > thakns > > try portmaster as a replacement to portupgrade. No dependencies and it > works great. Do you simply use 'portmaster -a' to update everything? I've tried using it a few times, but it never recompiled ports that depend on the one being updated. I recall there was an option to do that, but you had to specify each port manually for that to work. How do you get it to update all out-of-date ports and recompile everything depending on those ports?
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