portupgrade vs. portmanager ...

[James Long]

> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:34:57 -0800
> From: Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
> Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ...
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>
> Message-ID: <200603041934.58087.kstewart at owt.com>
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> On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:20, Peter wrote:
> > --- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
> > > I would like to know the difference between running:
> > >
> > > portupgrade -arR
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > portmanager -u
> > >
> > > Just curious is all, thanks.
> >
> > I have found portmanager to be more intelligent.  When
> > you run it it takes a look at all installed ports and
> > then it decides what order to upgrade the ports and
> > their dependencies.  Portupgrade proceeds linearly and
> > you may need to run it a few more times for everything
> > to be upgraded.  At least that's how I understand it.
> >
> > 
> But the -rR tells it to look at all of the dependancies and build them 
> if they need to be. In addition, if something depends on it, it will 
> also build them. 
> 
> I don't see any differance.

Further, the assertion by petermatulis at yahoo.ca that portupgrade 
requires multiple passes is just plain false.  I upgrade over 230 
ports on my laptop with one command.