Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:05:56 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I want to switch to the new pkg(8) format? Message-ID: <549E05F4.7090704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412261750190.26354@wonkity.com> References: <CAPi0psuei36LjMFT_B7DF3dWhTz=RK28r-kxKdyeNJx1YSapdg@mail.gmail.com> <549E007B.8090101@gmx.us> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412261750190.26354@wonkity.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-12-27 01:57, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >> Once you have a current tree, there are generally three ways to >> build the port (i.e., make a binary, executable "package" out of >> it): make (1), the portmaster (8) tool, or the portupgrade tool. >> They are not mutually exclusive, i.e., you can install a port >> with <cd /usr/ports/category/port && make install clean> then >> later upgrade it with <portmaster category/port>. > > Right. Really, all that portmaster or portupgrade do is automate > some of the steps. > > Both of these tools grew out of the problem of upgrading. When > there are several things to upgrade, packages which are required by > the others must be upgraded first. portmaster/portupgrade sort out > the dependencies and build the requirements in the right order. > They do that by using the standard port make targets. In fact, it > is possible to get them to show a list of what they would do, and > then do it by hand yourself. What I'm trying to say is that they > automate the process, but it is still the ports system that is > doing the building. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Whatever happened to portmanager? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUngXkAAoJEPJMW41Co4JgFMIQAJUcgWaDMELANfD0B5SHuuIH PheqhSvdeZvBFI/RQY2A8bGgot+7oHdVTLsmvnrYS6nt4Glm3yYwWMStaxsSY1y8 erKK08/di+7Ww0UaHUAiO901XPN1Jf/5egZcXqPmKKQkvXERrtSeLxrUuv/+xk9x cNg6gKgP2EOYnnliY4wknPSDxmB2cnrfMVB8yPb0ye0agXDpcUC8rl7Hve+intQ7 uB72BVArn2JFIB4bCwvvUG6bmjcTl4DmsnLCQ1p7fR61OMTRTj+GQz4c4acE05Gb kIE2ZY/APXjm5rL1CAooZAb4/vasWD9HKPEsVWs2GHjWe+iGldGRyEjq/JXSe+o/ rIH6tJmTGcG1M9m/bM1UQFXNrxVqPDfmWdYtfrP9Vfxs0in/ETzy5KOkwZoP1bsV 4K/0yGqkwPn+53AnVGaxcP5dfr7iIKtUAnSUAzI9ku7mjWkT753DdF6anqBrDhXU MjT9xV2gzCVSNGGn5qSkgxGoIp/5VXpqpJwO1PVHjXqfnjyTYzByG8Yt5yXiwL+z CPnBjbq3IEilPbA9tJN+kYZF5EeGXNxUKZLuUxEbQh3dB8McsQ1cgBdk8jxQbpR0 mUCH7kjGPhoRzQ9Eaio0vM/WRQAdI09axnCP5lcbuAqGw1N4sxg58PGPSfXB0AXh cS0+C73Rf8Ja1zioivRU =F7ZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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