"Doing the deed" on portupgrade

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 09:11:37 UTC 2012


On 12 Apr 2012 10:03, "Joel Dahl" <joel at vnode.se> wrote:
>
> On 12-04-2012  8:26, Chris Rees wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Even since its deprecation, portupgrade has proven to be very popular
> > with newcomers, which I might be inclined to blame on the fact that
> > the Handbook lists it first.
> >
> > Two patches:
> >
> > http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/move-portupgrade.diff -- move
> > the portupgrade section to the bottom
> >
> > http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/deprecate-portupgrade.diff --
> > add a note to suggest it's a bad idea to use it.
> >
> > Rendered at http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/rendered/portupgrade.html
> >
> > Thoughts?  Anyone want to risk approving it?
>
> Good idea. I'd like to see Portmaster first in the list though, and not
> Portmanager.
>

I thought about that too. I'll get new patches sent shortly.

Chris



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