Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:53:52 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ... Message-ID: <20060305134656.75D4.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060305134937.69169.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060305072451.GA42164@ns.museum.rain.com> <20060305134937.69169.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter wrote:
> --- James Long <list@museum.rain.com> wrote:
>
> > > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:34:57 -0800
> > > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
> > > Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ...
> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish
> > <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
> > > Message-ID: <200603041934.58087.kstewart@owt.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > > On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:20, Peter wrote:
> > > > --- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
> > > > > I would like to know the difference between running:
> > > > >
> > > > > portupgrade -arR and portmanager -u
> > > > >
> > > > > Just curious is all, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > I have found portmanager to be more intelligent. When
> > > > you run it it takes a look at all installed ports and
> > > > then it decides what order to upgrade the ports and
> > > > their dependencies. Portupgrade proceeds linearly and
> > > > you may need to run it a few more times for everything
> > > > to be upgraded. At least that's how I understand it.
> > > >
> > > But the -rR tells it to look at all of the dependancies and build them
> > > if they need to be. In addition, if something depends on it, it will
> > > also build them.
> > >
> > > I don't see any differance.
> >
> > Further, the assertion by petermatulis@yahoo.ca that
> > portupgrade
> > requires multiple passes is just plain false. I
> > upgrade over 230
> > ports on my laptop with one command.
>
> may == requires ?
Well, I just totally rebuilt all of the ports on my machine (330 to be
exact) with just one command also:
portmanager -u -f -l -y
Obviously, I updated the ports tree prior to running that command. It is
my own opinion that portmanager does a better job. That is my own
personal opinion however -- YMMV.
--
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net
Someone in a closed box cannot tell whether he is sitting at rest in the
earth's gravitational field or being accelerated by a rocket in free
space.
Albert Einstin
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