pkgng abilities (was: pkgng vs. portupgrade reporting ports outdated)

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 5 12:11:39 UTC 2014


On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 07:55:48 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:

> Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
>  >  pkg(8) does a damn sight more than the old pkg_tools.
> 
> 	Granted, though much of it I currently have little use
> for.  :-)
> 
>  >> "pkgng" can do almost everything the old system can, and does it
>  >> better.>
>  >
>  >   s/almost//
> 
> 	OK, Obi-wan - what's the replacement for:
> 
> 	a) "portsclean" with the C, D (single and double), and L
> 		options?  (Use no more than two commands.)
> 	b) "pkg_sort" ?
> 
> 	With these, I will cheerfully delete portupgrade.

portupgrade isn't part of "the old pkg_tools"


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