Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:25:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dru Lavigne <dru.lavigne@att.net> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating ports Message-ID: <1391477125.13219.YahooMailNeo@web184906.mail.gq1.yahoo.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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>> 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. Good catch...and I see that portsnap is already covered in Procedure 5.1 of section 5.6. I'll submit a patch some time this week. Cheers, Dru
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