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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