From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 01:05:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB1A6DF0 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2014 01:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x234.google.com (mail-lb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 370DA67E61 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2014 01:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id l4so8859767lbv.25 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:05:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PFCJJKyUUIbUpc1GLXIOXnkji77LyXHN8mLComVHXAs=; b=iJmcbU0wkNefdt9XF1htNMeeqc8j1VDG1VBOCyKRYIWhyGcE3TsQVtng4dAtckG4RK NI5SfTpwXOz1DQU+hjl0C1D1zdG6fRMJqae5EEgGepA5he5Y6gX7SlKPNSMXjyhZucBo KZrzIpGUwzilAY+ezze3TiN/5y8ccIqB41bCobX0wtl139V3nGUJ7UUHSawo/X+/F2oC JaDAHk0+Bm96UsHEhKW2go/KcyJk6MB8w7C3dbwvuJwb6i9fsD728vh0FRVobSMn+/Al BSrpGkgfUUwSKhYE66ZNjUIJ7QlRd6+TQNBTMehbMHy+MC3qC55b/8InAyBpRARYfoZM V/iA== X-Received: by 10.152.5.132 with SMTP id s4mr45861902las.39.1419642357251; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:05:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lazlar.no-ip.biz (213-64-218-92-no126.business.telia.com. [213.64.218.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 1sm4552086lal.20.2014.12.26.17.05.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:05:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <549E05F4.7090704@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:05:56 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I want to switch to the new pkg(8) format? References: <549E007B.8090101@gmx.us> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 01:05:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-12-27 01:57, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >> Once you have a current tree, there are generally three ways to >> build the port (i.e., make a binary, executable "package" out of >> it): make (1), the portmaster (8) tool, or the portupgrade tool. >> They are not mutually exclusive, i.e., you can install a port >> with then >> later upgrade it with . > > Right. Really, all that portmaster or portupgrade do is automate > some of the steps. > > Both of these tools grew out of the problem of upgrading. When > there are several things to upgrade, packages which are required by > the others must be upgraded first. portmaster/portupgrade sort out > the dependencies and build the requirements in the right order. > They do that by using the standard port make targets. In fact, it > is possible to get them to show a list of what they would do, and > then do it by hand yourself. What I'm trying to say is that they > automate the process, but it is still the ports system that is > doing the building. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Whatever happened to portmanager? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUngXkAAoJEPJMW41Co4JgFMIQAJUcgWaDMELANfD0B5SHuuIH PheqhSvdeZvBFI/RQY2A8bGgot+7oHdVTLsmvnrYS6nt4Glm3yYwWMStaxsSY1y8 erKK08/di+7Ww0UaHUAiO901XPN1Jf/5egZcXqPmKKQkvXERrtSeLxrUuv/+xk9x cNg6gKgP2EOYnnliY4wknPSDxmB2cnrfMVB8yPb0ye0agXDpcUC8rl7Hve+intQ7 uB72BVArn2JFIB4bCwvvUG6bmjcTl4DmsnLCQ1p7fR61OMTRTj+GQz4c4acE05Gb kIE2ZY/APXjm5rL1CAooZAb4/vasWD9HKPEsVWs2GHjWe+iGldGRyEjq/JXSe+o/ rIH6tJmTGcG1M9m/bM1UQFXNrxVqPDfmWdYtfrP9Vfxs0in/ETzy5KOkwZoP1bsV 4K/0yGqkwPn+53AnVGaxcP5dfr7iIKtUAnSUAzI9ku7mjWkT753DdF6anqBrDhXU MjT9xV2gzCVSNGGn5qSkgxGoIp/5VXpqpJwO1PVHjXqfnjyTYzByG8Yt5yXiwL+z CPnBjbq3IEilPbA9tJN+kYZF5EeGXNxUKZLuUxEbQh3dB8McsQ1cgBdk8jxQbpR0 mUCH7kjGPhoRzQ9Eaio0vM/WRQAdI09axnCP5lcbuAqGw1N4sxg58PGPSfXB0AXh cS0+C73Rf8Ja1zioivRU =F7ZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----