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Subject: Re: portmaster installation trampling on my binary packages???
From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
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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
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