Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:24:51 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ... Message-ID: <20060305072451.GA42164@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20060305033844.4617616A420@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060305033844.4617616A420@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:34:57 -0800 > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> > Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ... > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> > Message-ID: <200603041934.58087.kstewart@owt.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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. Further, the assertion by petermatulis@yahoo.ca that portupgrade requires multiple passes is just plain false. I upgrade over 230 ports on my laptop with one command.
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