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Subject: Re: I've started to hate portupgrade
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Angelo Turetta wrote:
> Every new version has such *evident* regressions!
> 
> Beside needlessly repackaging ports that fail build when doing "-a -p" 
> (obviously non repeatable by the developers), and sometimes failing to 
> reinstall a package if the install phase fails (also non reproducible, 
> but happening nonetheless in production servers).

Also often happened to me. Portmaster ist my tool of choice, now.