Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:59:13 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <20020106165913.J71102@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <E16NKQ8-0004b8-00@tungsten.btinternet.com>; from dominic_marks@btinternet.com on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:02:34PM %2B0000 References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <E16NKQ8-0004b8-00@tungsten.btinternet.com>
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While portupgrade is a fantastic tool, don't forget it's _port_upgrade and only applies to ports, so isn't really much use as a base tool, nevermind issues about its dependencies. Since I've not had the newbie experience for a while, I don't know where the typical new user would first find out about portupgrade. I'd consider it on a par with mergemaster for the base system in terms of utility, but a quick look around the docs doesn't turn up any mention of it. Where would the typical new user first find out about portupgrade? Would additional documentation be useful and if so, then where: sysinstall, *.TXT, /usr/share/doc, handbook or elsewhere? One concern is the frequent updates to portupgrade and its dependencies, although I haven't noticed any functional changes or significant breakage affecting my usage. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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