If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

Chris Hodgins chodgins at cis.strath.ac.uk
Sun Mar 13 12:33:08 PST 2005


Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:05 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
> 
>>If I just do:
>>
>>cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u
>>
>>Do I need portupgrade at all then?
>>
>>Thanks.
> 
> 
> Not for upgrading.  portsclean (a part of portsupgrade package) is a 
> nice feature of portupgrade, so is pkg_which and a few others
> so I keep portupgrade around just the same.
> 
> -Mike

How long does it take to run portmanager.  Is it a similar amount of 
time as portupgrade for each run?

Chris


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