Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:49:37 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: James Long <list@museum.rain.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ... Message-ID: <20060305134937.69169.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060305072451.GA42164@ns.museum.rain.com>
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--- James Long <list@museum.rain.com> wrote: > > 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. may == requires ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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