portupgrade vs. portmanager

[doug]

Does portmanager handle packages? If not any plans to do so?  I would be happy
to help with testing.

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote:

> > > Portupgrade has one serious flaw in my opinion and that is running
> > > something like pkgdb -F damages the port installation database as
> > > far as I'm concerned.  It causes the data base to say ports were
> > > built with dependency ports that they were  never really built
> > > with.  Portmanager only addresses that one issue and for the
> > > forseeable future that is where all the focus will be, only on
> > > correctly updating ports.
> >