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Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ...
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On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:20, Peter wrote:
> --- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote:
> > I would like to know the difference between running:
> >
> > portupgrade -arR
> >
> > and
> >
> > portmanager -u
> >
> > Just curious is all, thanks.
>
> I have found portmanager to be more intelligent.  When
> you run it it takes a look at all installed ports and
> then it decides what order to upgrade the ports and
> their dependencies.  Portupgrade proceeds linearly and
> you may need to run it a few more times for everything
> to be upgraded.  At least that's how I understand it.
>
> 
But the -rR tells it to look at all of the dependancies and build them 
if they need to be. In addition, if something depends on it, it will 
also build them. 

I don't see any differance.

Kent

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