portupgrade <-> portmaster?

[matt donovan]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Mitja <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:04:09 Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> > > Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster?
> >
> > Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages to upgrade
> > your system. portmaster can create them (by adding the -g option) - but
> > not use them. This is the reason we use portupgrade at work where we
> > have several FreeBSD servers which shares /usr/ports.
> >
> > > Is there also a way back, i.e. from portmaster to portupgrade?
> >
> > No problem at all. You can even have both installed. If you upgrade your
> > outdated port with portupgrade, portmaster will not try to upgrade it
> > and vice versa, unless you force it to (which makes no sense).
>
> I am more than one year FreeBSD user :), started with 7.0 and I have to
> used
> portupgrade but later I did change to portmaster which I like it but few
> day
> ago I had a problem (on FreeBSD 7.1) with update. Here is a link to the
> FreeBSD forum where I asked about a problem.
> Today I installed portupgrade and update was without problem.
>
> Are there some problem with portmaster on 7.1?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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believe so since I remember seeing the author talk about patching
portmaster.