From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 20:50:30 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 010A516A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:50:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F74743D31 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:50:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC7160D8; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:50:28 -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 32828-04; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:50:26 -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 13DA260D4; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:50:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4234A796.6040705@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:50:30 -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> <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com> <4234A809.7000407@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4234A809.7000407@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 20:50:30 -0000 Chris Hodgins wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Excellent. Does it leave packages for everything or is just thunderbird > that does this? > I assume so - I just checked Firefox - and its in there. -- Best regards, Chris The tendency of smoke from a cigarette, barbeque, campfire, etc. to drift into a person's face varies directly with that person's sensitivity to smoke.