From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 07:46:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D7A1065674 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4CA8FC15 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:46:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1280967fga.13 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:46:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=QF8/iK7kh95kDLLqE2tsGUSrP5qNX5MSHwPw/XvlXSI=; b=aBKQ48HxEKcqoRTJgd3oKmFTJ1GBeCrRqkFuCIbOniKpKfqcng6gtR++2f7gYC1ILm Dl1OrlG9Zh/buWuvldCCgI57wYUzmIkzcmfX9QiwFBj9QQaUQZMKpakLZC09MUHKeFjb PuaN9MWzBTG0juvqJit6XZwxw8RotdsUkiU90= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=QkluD1EtJaYOqIa27eYkyGVovBzWpUw1eULuzumA2tzidjfkjYE+SWqaWhPlsUA70n g1+7Do8nPwZ1Ly2FoxJGdZXeWSEWDLEWHSJwqwe+OJYfjj/eO+2MRxBFRVFW4++cFUev kA6iq9Q3sQVRKDh1To1eBy9q4pPPevDOaLGjw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.83.30 with SMTP id d30mr369537bkl.125.1275378410223; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.123.202 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:46:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <28736514.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:46:50 +0200 Message-ID: From: David DEMELIER To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: zaxis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:46:51 -0000 2010/6/1 Eitan Adler : > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis 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