If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Mar 13 15:46:02 PST 2005


Bart Silverstrim wrote:

>
> Portmanager has made most of my updating a no-brainer, and I've been 
> thankful that Michael was fast to fix problems when I reported what 
> little I ran into.  And this is on an in-use production server....I 
> trust it with the updates, so either it's a program that works very 
> well or I've been very lucky :-)
>
> I'd definitely recommend new users try using Portmanager for keeping 
> their ports up to date.  It is simple and straightforward to use and 
> doesn't confuse newer users with details like manipulating the ports 
> index.  It's just a "portmanager -u" and off it goes...check in once 
> in awhile to see how it's progressing and that's it.  Makes updating 
> as simple as the process of installing a new port :-)
>
> -Bart


Agreed - I to use it on a production boxen - and as Bart has said, 
either it's a great product or I have been lucky also.

Best regards,
Chris


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