ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

Chris Rees crees at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 12 10:09:59 UTC 2012


On 12 April 2012 10:03, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 10:57, Chris Rees wrote:
>>> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that portmanager
>>> > is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does what it does extremely
>>> > well and without fuss. I think the fact that it still "just works" after all
>>> > this time is a mark of it's worth.
>
>> Unfortunately, many of us do not find that it 'just works'.  There is
>> no-one to ask for support, so people resort to asking ports@ or in
>> IRC.
>>
>> It is also unmaintained, and has many bugs against it:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=portupgrade
>
>
> He said *portmanager*  There aren't any open PRs against portmanager and
> it has a maintainer.

Ouch, sorry -- got confused with the plethora of portupgrade threads
I'm in at the moment :/

Chris, I did misread your email-- portmanager appears absolutely fine,
and is in no danger of removal :)

Chris


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