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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:20:07 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quick newbie portupgrade question.
Message-ID:  <20040227062007.GA14059@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <403EDBEB.4070904@ste-land.com>

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:55:55AM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> I understand that 'portupgrade -arR' will upgrade everything. Some are 
> packages and some are ports. Will portupgrade upgrade packages with 
> packages, and ports with ports, or do packages get replaced with ports, 
> so that all are ports after it's run?

The system has no memory of whether you installed something from a
package or if you compiled it yourself.  Which of these two is used
for upgrading is up to you and can be controlled with the -P switches
to portupgrade (see the manpage).

Kris

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