Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:24:34 -0500 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating ports Message-ID: <52F04152.5020202@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <20140204012007.GZ1766@glenbarber.us> References: <1391476255.71576.YahooMailNeo@web184905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20140204012007.GZ1766@glenbarber.us>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2014-02-03 20:20, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:10:55PM -0800, Dru Lavigne wrote: >> Currently, there are 2 Handbook sections that deal with upgrading ports: >> >> 5.6.3. Upgrading Ports (which describes the use of the portmaster and portupgrade ports) >> >> and >> >> 23.3. Portsnap: a Ports Collection Update Tool (which describes the built-in portsnap) >> >> I would like to combine these into 5.6.3. >> >> Do we want to encourage the use of third-party utils or just encourage the use of the built in one? >> > I think there are two separate topics here (without having looked at the > Handbook sections yet). I don't think portmaster and portupgrade > actually handle updating the ports tree itself, but handle > upgrading/rebuilding ports within the ports tree. > > Portsnap, on the other hand, does not actually touch the software > installed (meaning, it does not update the installed third-party > software), but only handles updating the ports tree sources themselves. > >> If just the built in one, I'll replace 5.6.3 with the contents of 23.3 and reduce portmaster/portupgrade to a note that these utils are available in the ports collection. >> >> If we should describe all three, I'll place 23.3 as the first utility to be described in 5.6.3. >> > Glen > A section that discusses portmaster should probably talk about the similar functionality that is now 'pkg upgrade', which wasn't possible with the pkg_* tools -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS8EFWAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKf2LIQALIvkZuw0i53NEl8JkkcgdXH jfOzuZ81QZsYxQefbrGrho6za8NoEUZSZgS4kdtCwP5bhf+SDeFZBnV4pknITrgG CAPn+UiGzanqntH5Da044xI45V0oI2T7FpcldH1BArxo6sdFBJAtrIdH+r7mCNNm Nd3fgsZzd87FOiQf5iMirYM85I1KW6ttZqU1t1JxNhXzRPnjg+e3aRA+2VC/QzHM dA898XbOOCVAo5fo4YSXb0jmy7dR3A1LIfUHEn0fLhVolekF3QxgClvNAbVDcXeC Iap2L8S7AiUto+voCgg20USWdbzrIB2dyxsPnZM/CzzbJdQ8MdJnRIMLyguqgZlO KrEHVDOA/z89BA/I7RjWCV23prWZWFuq/Qg7aAMIZNOPhKdihSZPMxm1ylc3GhJM gCLGnNooNtXZnIC4eOREL0dvdGI4jz9g9cVaRxTWrC01DN55X6UaeBqgG+7XpbIT KznaEX7rr0f4PIDwQKdyVKvp7oz+YTy92Su/bnwlS3zbIGP63OtH6XjldvzRYLG8 VDJ8FtxUadxdbdjKpu9NYClvfK5NQfCtEEBn8rth4UYtx1OwJ+TxkNp4zEAiroFD oK5BSuu7IuCP8FnMDyTOjQox5iEQ55x4VCTp2Mo8C5fFp7K2QniDuHgfx4AEPbWC KWdwe8MGzaST03SYDt4t =ePwc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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