Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:52:25 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: racerx@makeworld.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade? Message-ID: <4234A809.7000407@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com> References: <20050313200543.B290F4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200503131220.02607.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4234A4C5.2090109@cis.strath.ac.uk> <4234A531.6040100@makeworld.com>
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Chris wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > >>Michael C. Shultz wrote: >> >> >>>On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: >>> >>> >>>>If I just do: >>>> >>>>cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u >>>> >>>>Do I need portupgrade at all then? >>>> >>>>Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>>Not for upgrading. portsclean (a part of portsupgrade package) is a >>>nice feature of portupgrade, so is pkg_which and a few others >>>so I keep portupgrade around just the same. >>> >>>-Mike >> >> >>How long does it take to run portmanager. Is it a similar amount of >>time as portupgrade for each run? >> >>Chris > > > The time is about the same (in my experiance) AND (most importantly) > portmanager seems to handle upgrading better then portupgrade does. > > IE: Thunderbird, Gnome, Firefox. > > Another nifty thing is that portmanager creates a package and dumps it > in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird (for example) and at least for me, I can > pkg_add that to my laptop since they both run 5.3 > Excellent. Does it leave packages for everything or is just thunderbird that does this?
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