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Date:      Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:05:42 -0500
From:      "Zimmerman, Eric" <Zimmerman.Eric@con-way.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: portinstall .vs. make install clean
Message-ID:  <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E017E8F6F@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com>

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> On 6/27/05, Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:32, Sergey Spivak wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade
> > >
> > > "portinstall" =3D "portupgrade -N"
> >
> > Oh. Makes me wonder why 'portinstall' exists at all.

While this isn't related to the OP's question, it might be helpful to
him.


I find portmanager to be vastly superior to portupgrade.

In one fell swoop you can update any new ports + rebuild all
dependencies.=20

It works well. Combine it with portsnap and life is good! =3D)

It doesn't have a ruby dependency either. Give it a whirl.  It rocks.



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