portupgrade vs. portmanager

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup.
> Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1
> I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb -Uu. It errored out,
> telling me that I shouldn't use my "refuse" file that stopped the
> non- english docs and ports from being loaded on my HD.
>
> In trying to understand this issue, I found portmanager, and it looks
> like it would perform the same function as portupgrade.
>
> My questions: Is there a way around the "refuse" file prohibition,
> perhaps with portmanager? Does portmanager replace portupgrade?

portmanager doesn't require the INDEX files to keep ports up to date, so 
the refuse file is a non issue with it.

-Mike