CVSup vs. portupgrade

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Apr 2 17:32:49 PST 2004


On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:27:31PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
> Reading from the FreeBSD handbook on "Using the Ports Collection" leaves me a 
> bit confused wrt CVSup and portupgrade... do these utilities accomplish the 
> same thing?

No, cvsup updates the files that make up the ports collection,
portupgrade takes them and uses them to rebuild the ports you have
installed.

Kris
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