Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:11:14 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: Matt Snow <drama@slakin.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. cvsup ports-supfile Message-ID: <20020626111114.E2322@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20020626075024.T86315-100000@seven.slakin.net>; from drama@slakin.net on Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:57:09AM -0700 References: <20020626075024.T86315-100000@seven.slakin.net>
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+---- Matt Snow wrote: | I was wondering what the difference is between portupgrade, and doing a | cvsup ports-supfile. | | Can anybody tell me the difference's between the two? The ports system provides a collection of patches and makefiles to build common 3rd party programs on FreeBSD. When you cvsup your ports, what you are doing is updating those makefiles and patch files. It does not upgrade the ports you have already installed. Portupgrade is a build/version management system that handles the building, installation, and upgrading of packages. It is used to upgrade previously installed ports, with special attention to versioning and dependencies. Let's say you've installed widget-1.0 from your ports tree. After cvsupping /usr/ports you look and find that widget-2.0 is available. You then can use portupgrade to upgrade your widget installation, along with the other installed ports that may depend on it. hope this helps -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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