Updating Ports

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu Oct 18 08:35:51 PDT 2007


Peter Clark writes:

>  Is there a "better" (I realize everything is relative) option
>  when looking at portupgrade vs portmanager? From what I am
>  reading it seems that portmanager will upgrade and reinstall a
>  port and all it's dependencies no matter if the dependency needs
>  it or not and portupgrade will only do the port specified (unless
>  certain flags are present to do all depend). I am using FreeBSD
>  6.2-p7.

	Ca you describe the behavior you would like to see?


					Robert Huff


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