Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:46:50 +0200 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: zaxis <z_axis@163.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ? Message-ID: <AANLkTilWlt-ySQqMGfqhW0Hoq2AAgLFJy3kcF3FI6to6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com> References: <28736514.post@talk.nabble.com> <AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/6/1 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis <z_axis@163.com> wrote: >> >> Why do we need two tools ? >> > Its three. Add portmanager. > > The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds. > > Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages when > portupgrade could. > portmaster can! See portmaster manpage. -P[P] options. The differences are that portupgrade use a database, it's written in ruby while portmaster is only one shell script. That's why I really prefere portmaster that also have zsh completion and is faster. -- Demelier David
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