Port installation methods

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:59:50PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote:
> Is there any benefit to using the standard 'make' method of installing 
> ports over the 'portinstall' command (or portupgrade -N), or 
> vice-versa?

If you've just installed a fresh FreeBSD system then there isn't much
difference. I offten use the make method in this case. But I switch to
portinstall and portupgrade if I a) have updated /usr/ports and b) have
installed any port or package. The reason for this is that portinstall
and portupgrade have a better port management system. This package/port
detects for you changes. With out the portupgrade package you will find
that multiple version of the same packages will be registered and only
one is installed. (There is only one installed because each override the
other fysicaly in /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 but not in the regerstry.)

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/