If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

[Chris]

Chris Hodgins wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> 
>> Chris Hodgins wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> The time is about the same (in my experiance) AND (most importantly)
>> portmanager seems to handle upgrading better then portupgrade does.
>>
>> IE: Thunderbird, Gnome, Firefox.
>>
>> Another nifty thing is that portmanager creates a package and dumps it
>> in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird (for example) and at least for me, I can
>> pkg_add that to my laptop since they both run 5.3
>>
> 
> Excellent.  Does it leave packages for everything or is just thunderbird
> that does this?
>

I assume so - I just checked Firefox - and its in there.


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