From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 20:40:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811C016A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:40:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BCC43D1D for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:40:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614FD60D8; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:40:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32384-08; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:40:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0988660D4; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:40:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:40:17 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hodgins References: <20050313200543.B290F4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200503131220.02607.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: "Michael C. Shultz" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:40:19 -0000 Chris Hodgins wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >> On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: >> >>> If I just do: >>> >>> cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u >>> >>> Do I need portupgrade at all then? >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part of portsupgrade package) is a >> nice feature of portupgrade, so is pkg_which and a few others >> so I keep portupgrade around just the same. >> >> -Mike > > > How long does it take to run portmanager. Is it a similar amount of > time as portupgrade for each run? > > Chris The time is about the same (in my experiance) AND (most importantly) portmanager seems to handle upgrading better then portupgrade does. IE: Thunderbird, Gnome, Firefox. Another nifty thing is that portmanager creates a package and dumps it in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird (for example) and at least for me, I can pkg_add that to my laptop since they both run 5.3 -- Best regards, Chris Misery no longer loves company nowdays it insists on it.