portupgrade vs. portmanager ...

[Peter]

--- James Long <list at museum.rain.com> wrote:

> > 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>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> > 
> > 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.

may == requires ?

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