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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:20:18 +0300
From:      "Igor B. Bykhalo" <goshik@binep.ac.ru>
To:        "Dominic Marks" <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>, "Andrew J Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>, "Pat Wendorf" <beholder@unios.dhs.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Portupgrade man pages online (Was: Re: Portupgrade Utility)
Message-ID:  <060801c1975e$be776420$ea2ce9c1@binep.ac.ru>
References:  <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <E16NKQ8-0004b8-00@tungsten.btinternet.com>

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Hi,

> From: "Dominic Marks" <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
> On Sunday 06 January 2002 8:13 pm, Pat Wendorf wrote:
> > What's the chances it will ever show up as part of the base system?
> 
> Very low indeed. (I would hope).
[...]

Because it's written in Ruby, as others already mention.

> From: "Andrew J Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
> While portupgrade is a fantastic tool, don't forget it's _port_upgrade and
> only applies to ports, so isn't really much use as a base tool, nevermind
> issues about its dependencies.
> 
[...]
> 
> Where would the typical new user first find out about portupgrade?
Very good question!
> 
> Would additional documentation be useful and if so, then where:
> sysinstall, *.TXT, /usr/share/doc, handbook or elsewhere?

IMO, it would be very useful to have portupgrade's man pages online at
FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?

under "FreeBSD Ports" entry.

Whom to ask?

Igor Bykhalo.



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