ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

[Chris Rees]

On 12 April 2012 09:13, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 04:41, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>>
>> On 04/12/12 03:39, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery<bryan at shatow.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Phillip,
>>>>
>>>> Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster
>>>> instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer?
>>>
>>>
>>> Open PRs that indicate long lasting bugs with no upstream maintainer.
>>> If you would like to pick up development of portupgrade please go
>>> ahead!
>>>
>>>> I was considering writing/submitting a patch to support pkgng with
>>>> portupgrade.
>>>
>>>
>>> There are many that would be thankful. If you wish to become the
>>> upstream maintainer and release new versions, fix bugs, deal with
>>> existing PRs please do so. I'll be happy to commit the new version.
>>>
>>
>> I'd say with Eitan said, but the architecture and dependencies of
>> portupgrade make this a daunting task to say the least; however, feel
>> free to try.
>>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that portmanager
> is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does what it does extremely
> well and without fuss. I think the fact that it still "just works" after all
> this time is a mark of it's worth.

Unfortunately, many of us do not find that it 'just works'.  There is
no-one to ask for support, so people resort to asking ports@ or in
IRC.

It is also unmaintained, and has many bugs against it:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=portupgrade

Chris