From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 23:37:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C241065672 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 23:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26C88FC14 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 23:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so13499666fxm.13 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NOjQj39zYKSIV8jIvHahLHDiSKsvTeZwDPzE2DEyLIQ=; b=AH7r/WdbU+l0y07hIWHTh8lK8/ykHepPdcadpQw100b1ItWDyTnmtw1cY96PD1Xuhi 2e8u8gQjJUZH9BrJVqjzWRqGZhgef7+S2mC0fYXTParUdhsZJ7fm3L2xDRXOZv78FZkk A8ROUGYwK2kI2nZaOLlqBgh/aU6wy1r+6TkQA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=T6y/e6AvEZvrt67jsbU1rXtmkyTpgFVz+zgszJUoNzXu6f6H5wXW70Jrz4GI2119JI YN+eZqaEPxC+6lcgwvEF3xh3Xwg1H8ztWFx8PMxKJXjRHmhdWEYNxhzy8Gvfr1T6gAQq nFTeRp3f19VViuzilsHMZfdqcj/If6XKORQno= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.104.145 with SMTP id p17mr263270fao.105.1294097830597; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.193 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110103225455.GA37597@daemon.gnix.co.uk> References: <14212432ba707fc5f9fbc75b56e8e783@flabnapple.net> <20101226214221.GB68570@stainmore> <86pqsogfvu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4D186D11.1030708@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110103225455.GA37597@daemon.gnix.co.uk> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:37:10 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Jamie Paul Griffin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade status 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: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:37:12 -0000 On 3 January 2011 17:54, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > so can i just ask, is portmaster or another port upgrading tool recommend= ed over portupgrade now because i'm going to be upgrading all my ports soon= and =A0in the 18 months i've been using FreeBSD i've always used portupgra= de but sounds like it's best to change now. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0jamie Unless you particularly despise some aspect or feature of portupgrade, I can see little point in switching. Portmaster has the advantage of not requiring ruby or an external database, but the disadvan- tage of not having an equivalent of # portupgrade -Rf (at least last time I used it) --=20 --