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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > So don't use it?  :-)  There are alternatives like portmaster.
> 
> I suppose I prefer a single, reliable, supported tool for the system.
> portupgrade seems to be pushed the most in all of the documentation
> that I can find, so I went with it. Maybe I should dig into its guts
> and find out how it works.

Try portmanager; it has worked well for me.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>