From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 23:46:02 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 83EAC16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:46:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25F243D3F for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:46:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A1C60D8; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:46:00 -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 33610-06; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:45:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (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 4AD7560D4; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:45:57 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4234D0AD.5070004@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:45:49 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Silverstrim References: <20050313200543.B290F4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200503131220.02607.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> <200503131246.03193.ringworm01@gmail.com> <932306becc748b381634aac3df646c87@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <932306becc748b381634aac3df646c87@chrononomicon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: Chris Hodgins 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:46:02 -0000 Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > Portmanager has made most of my updating a no-brainer, and I've been > thankful that Michael was fast to fix problems when I reported what > little I ran into. And this is on an in-use production server....I > trust it with the updates, so either it's a program that works very > well or I've been very lucky :-) > > I'd definitely recommend new users try using Portmanager for keeping > their ports up to date. It is simple and straightforward to use and > doesn't confuse newer users with details like manipulating the ports > index. It's just a "portmanager -u" and off it goes...check in once > in awhile to see how it's progressing and that's it. Makes updating > as simple as the process of installing a new port :-) > > -Bart Agreed - I to use it on a production boxen - and as Bart has said, either it's a great product or I have been lucky also. Best regards, Chris