Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:15:46 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Cc: Maher Mohamed <mahmoh@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portinstall .vs. make install clean Message-ID: <20050628111546.GD48140@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <200506261929.27681.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <f34868a305062611126c31b0cb@mail.gmail.com> <200506261929.27681.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk>
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# dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk / 2005-06-26 19:29:27 +0100:
> On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:12, Maher Mohamed wrote:
> > can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make
> > install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports?
>
> portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade which
> you can use to build and install ports. It can do some things which
> you can't do with a simple 'make install'. For example, I often
> use portinstall to create packages for a port and its dependancies.
As in (make package-recursive)?
That's not to say that portinstall isn't useful, I use it most of
the time, FWIW.
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