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Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:35:40 +0200
> mcassar <marshc187@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> so most of you _do_ use or prefer csup/cvsup more than portsnap, right? 

> There are 2 ports that will help you with management of your ports/packages -
> ports-mgmt/portupgrade and ports-mgmt/portmaster ( which
> means /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/ , etc... )  - they can tell you what
> needs updating,etc (can't remember if it is in the handbook...)

three on my machine, the two above and ports-mgmt/portmanager. I use 
csup and portmanager - it's simple and very thorough.

Chris