Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:03:36 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portmaster installation trampling on my binary packages??? Message-ID: <52E6B873-E461-474C-9A7D-4A56D1813FDC@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tWawRnYY4Fzvux8PgrZsN_aRZQhEHE4%2BuQVqehcWLqMw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1489948526.907848.916282096.587A8CA0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CAN6yY1tWawRnYY4Fzvux8PgrZsN_aRZQhEHE4%2BuQVqehcWLqMw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 19 Mar, 2017, at 13:54, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Then I run 'pkg upgrade' regularly. This will update any ports that = have > been modified since you installed your system. Everything that Kevin said is right on the money, but I wanted to = highlight this in particular. If you've installed from packages, you want to run "pkg upgrade" to keep = your system up-to-date, not "portmaster -a". pkg is the best tool for managing packages. portmaster wasn't written = for binary packages. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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