From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 17:41:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F3316A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (cromagnon.cullmail.com [67.33.58.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6429443D39 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]) i331iqub025741; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:44:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: by cromagnon.cullmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i331iqGm025740; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:44:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamoore) From: Jay Moore To: Kris Kennaway Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:44:51 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200404021927.31132.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <20040403013246.GA9839@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040403013246.GA9839@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404021944.51126.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup vs. portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 01:41:47 -0000 On Friday 02 April 2004 07:32 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Reading from the FreeBSD handbook on "Using the Ports Collection" leaves > > me a bit confused wrt CVSup and portupgrade... do these utilities > > accomplish the same thing? > > No, cvsup updates the files that make up the ports collection, > portupgrade takes them and uses them to rebuild the ports you have > installed. That makes sense - at the risk of sounding like I know what I'm doing, what would be the best way for me to submit a change to the handbook that says that? Thanks, Jay