From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 17:43:03 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 83A1A16A4DE for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:43:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7A7543D45 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:43:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 16708 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2006 17:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@75.3.42.185 with login) by smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Aug 2006 17:43:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6299652; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:43:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tZaaMXi4tA36; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:42:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7024A; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:42:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44EDE522.8030307@mikestammer.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:42:58 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnny Choque References: <007f01c6c799$81e9e170$2bba90c1@Altair> In-Reply-To: <007f01c6c799$81e9e170$2bba90c1@Altair> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade 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: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:43:03 -0000 Johnny Choque wrote: >> portmanager -u -l >> >> It will save you time and trouble. It also assumes you have >> 'portmanager' >> installed. Portsnap is part of the base system. > > I'm newbie in Freebsd and initially I have use cvsup and portupgrade. I > haven't clear what is the difference to use portupgrade, portsnap, > portmanager, and other ones? Could you recommend us one of them? > > Johnny portsnap and portmaster are the best 2 IMO. both work and work well without a lot of extra stuff to install like ruby, etc. and are updated often