Status of portupgrade and portmaster?

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 1 22:49:35 UTC 2017


On 01/10/2017 11:34, Carmel NY wrote:
> 1. Does it determine out-of-date update packages automatically or does
> the user have to determine that what is out-of-date and feed them to poudriere
> manually and in the proper order?

Automatic.

> 2. From what I have read, the user is required to install each package
> manually. Is that correct?

Poudriere builds a repository.  You then have to type 'pkg upgrade' or
'pkg install foo' to update your live system.  Most people do not find
this particularly taxing.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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