portinstall .vs. make install clean

[Dominic Marks]

On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:12, Maher Mohamed wrote:
> can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make
> install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports?

portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade which
you can use to build and install ports. It can do some things which
you can't do with a simple 'make install'. For example, I often
use portinstall to create packages for a port and its dependancies.

See the portupgrade manual page for details about how to use it.
You should also look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for how to
set more advanced configurations for your system. 

> thnk you in advanced

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