Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:26:36 +0800 From: Edward <myself@rdtan.net> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: port upgrading Message-ID: <4CA00EEC.2010806@rdtan.net> In-Reply-To: <4C9F74DD.6000009@nagual.nl> References: <4C9F74DD.6000009@nagual.nl>
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> Woh, I'm confused now. > Question: what is best used to have an up2date ports collection nowadays? "portsnap fetch extract update" for the first time after you've setup the FreeBSD for the very first time. As the parameters used, it fetch the ports tree, extract it to /usr/ports and update it. "portsnap fetch update" every now and then to update the ports tree. In addition, "portmanager" does a good job in managing ports in terms of install/update of ports. It doesn't required ports index to find out what is installed or needs to upgrade as it scans the ports tree for dependency, every time. This is good because I don't have to deal with the problem of ports index getting corrupted. Because of this, it does required more time to install/update ports compare to "portmaster" & "portupgrade". I've recorded some of my experience in using "portmanager" : http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/01/freebsd-how-to-manage-ports-in-freebsd.html My 2 cents, Edward.
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