CVSup vs. portupgrade

Jay Moore jaymo at cromagnon.cullmail.com
Fri Apr 2 17:41:47 PST 2004


On Friday 02 April 2004 07:32 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > Reading from the FreeBSD handbook on "Using the Ports Collection" leaves
> > me a bit confused wrt CVSup and portupgrade... do these utilities
> > accomplish the same thing?
>
> No, cvsup updates the files that make up the ports collection,
> portupgrade takes them and uses them to rebuild the ports you have
> installed.

That makes sense - at the risk of sounding like I know what I'm doing, what 
would be the best way for me to submit a change to the handbook that says 
that?

Thanks,
Jay


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