Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:34:57 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ... Message-ID: <200603041934.58087.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20060305032021.33621.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060305032021.33621.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:20, Peter wrote: > --- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > > I would like to know the difference between running: > > > > portupgrade -arR > > > > and > > > > portmanager -u > > > > Just curious is all, thanks. > > I have found portmanager to be more intelligent. When > you run it it takes a look at all installed ports and > then it decides what order to upgrade the ports and > their dependencies. Portupgrade proceeds linearly and > you may need to run it a few more times for everything > to be upgraded. At least that's how I understand it. > > But the -rR tells it to look at all of the dependancies and build them if they need to be. In addition, if something depends on it, it will also build them. I don't see any differance. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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