From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 08:22:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F6E16A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alistair.sutton@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B0643D45 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:22:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alistair.sutton@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y2so155834uge for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:22:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NT4tcnDlJl+Q0XK24qPLMEc8BQln1kDlspnLVR0d6ICOJbaO6guc3ZiozYHXIPhy9LCx8Vhr+SKXr4nB0x2vosoRhzFz8dD6G+AZbFYIsbjhBScZDw9DK8D9MO1C2n8RzfhRiTiMU5mn0AAknZEIuAoqo7dQAbekvNconvBkHhY= Received: by 10.48.220.3 with SMTP id s3mr1335569nfg; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:54:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.237.15 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:54:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 07:54:20 +0000 From: Alistair Sutton To: Eric Kjeldergaard In-Reply-To: <200602011133.53031.kjelderg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <93676E29-4F0E-40DC-904C-225A859D0B78@u.washington.edu> <200602010156.57750.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200602011133.53031.kjelderg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RW Subject: Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:22:54 -0000 On 01/02/06, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:56、RW さんは書きました: > > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 17:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > > > > portupgrade: Use for updating your actual ports programs. > > > > > > There may be a more elegant solution though and I would be more than > > > happy to hear it too :). > > > -Garrett > > > > I find that portmanager generally does a better job at keeping ports up to > > date without manual intervention. A notable example being its ability to > > upgrade Gnome without the help of a script. > > I also found portupgrade both more capable in many cases and more easy-to-use > (just portmanager -u to do what one "usually" wants to do). Too bad it was > pulled from ports. It added back into ports very shortly after it was pulled. Quite what its future is going to be do though I don't know as the author now seems to be concentrating on Linux as being portmanager's main platform. Al -- GPG/PGP: http://www.no-dns-yet.org.uk/~everlone/pubkey.gpg