updating ports

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-02-03 20:20, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:10:55PM -0800, Dru Lavigne wrote:
>> Currently, there are 2 Handbook sections that deal with upgrading ports:
>>
>> 5.6.3. Upgrading Ports  (which describes the use of the portmaster and portupgrade ports)
>>
>> and
>>
>> 23.3. Portsnap: a Ports Collection Update Tool (which describes the built-in portsnap)
>>
>> I would like to combine these into 5.6.3.
>>
>> Do we want to encourage the use of third-party utils or just encourage the use of the built in one?
>>
> I think there are two separate topics here (without having looked at the
> Handbook sections yet).  I don't think portmaster and portupgrade
> actually handle updating the ports tree itself, but handle
> upgrading/rebuilding ports within the ports tree.
>
> Portsnap, on the other hand, does not actually touch the software
> installed (meaning, it does not update the installed third-party
> software), but only handles updating the ports tree sources themselves.
>
>> If just the built in one, I'll replace 5.6.3 with the contents of 23.3 and reduce portmaster/portupgrade to a note that these utils are available in the ports collection.
>>
>> If we should describe all three, I'll place 23.3 as the first utility to be described in 5.6.3.
>>
> Glen
>
A section that discusses portmaster should probably talk about the
similar functionality that is now 'pkg upgrade', which wasn't possible
with the pkg_* tools


-- 
Allan Jude


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