From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 16:02:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 561EA16A40F for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:02:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C8B443D53 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:02:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 98914 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2006 16:02:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.105.213 with login) by smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2006 16:02:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1034D52 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:02:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UFpjnJHBn9Uz for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:02:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CD033 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:02:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4534FE77.3000201@mikestammer.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:01:59 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061017104115.B2E4.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20061017104115.B2E4.GERARD@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing and upgrading ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:02:07 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Tuesday October 17, 2006 at 08:47:27 (AM) Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >> I'm confused - what is sort of the consensus pick for "best" port >> tool? Usually, I just cd /usr/ports/xxxx/yyyy and do a 'make install clean', >> but I've also tried portmanager and portupgrade, but I'm not sure when to >> prefer one to another. Should I stick with one? Will mixing & matching >> confuse things? portupgrade seems to take a lot longer than portmanager. >> And where does the pkgdb command fit in? > > You could always do a 'man pkgdb' to get information regarding that > utility. As far as 'portmanager' vs portupgrade' go, I think that it > really boils down to your own preference. I usually prefer > 'portmanager'; however, I still use 'portupgrade' on occasion. There is > no know problem that I am aware of that arises from using one and then > the other on you system. If you really want to rebuild your system > applications I feel that 'portmanager -f -u' probably does a more > through job than 'portupgrade'; but again that is just my opinion. > > i find portmaster > all. give it a whirl. No dependencies, its actively maintained, etc.