Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 11:29:12 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem in upgrading to latest pkgs Message-ID: <200211091929.gA9JTDcr080380@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200211091421.22782.linimon@lonesome.com> References: <13739A17-F376-11D6-A579-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr> <200211091338.10008.behanna@zbzoom.net> <200211091856.gA9IuxD4079858@intruder.bmah.org> <200211091421.22782.linimon@lonesome.com>
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--==_Exmh_-1017149472P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mark Linimon wrote: > > I distinctly remember adding it to the manpage. This was a nice idea > > before portupgrade came along, but too many people managed to shoot > > themselves in the foot with it. > > A solution that is possible is to reword the ports webpage to > point out the central role portupgrade plays. I will attempt to > create a PR for this. Maybe. It's not clear to me where people go to find out these things...the Handbook and FAQ are probably equally good places. (They are not mutually exclusive, of course!) > On a very similar note, is portcheckout a less-worthy contender > to portupgrade, and if so, should it be deprecated? Based on a very quick reading of portcheckout's pkg-descr file, I'd say that they perform two different functions. portcheckout lets you get port directories if you don't have a complete ports tree on your system. portupgrade upgrades existing ports, but assumes that all the necessary parts of a ports tree already exist on your local machine. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1017149472P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9zWII2MoxcVugUsMRAqpJAKDCiijKQV2RqYJ7rpaVBiPK9TWEJACfeU2J TxXGDO9fvCWL0mVm43UbkoA= =Xhci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1017149472P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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