portupgrade vs. portmanager ...

[Gerard Seibert]

Peter wrote:

> --- James Long <list at museum.rain.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:34:57 -0800
> > > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
> > > Subject: Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager ...
> > > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > Cc: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>, Kiffin Gish
> > <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>
> > > Message-ID: <200603041934.58087.kstewart at owt.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > > On Saturday 04 March 2006 19:20, Peter wrote:
> > > > --- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
> > > > > I would like to know the difference between running:
> > > > >
> > > > > portupgrade -arR and portmanager -u
> > > > >
> > > > > Just curious is all, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > I have found portmanager to be more intelligent.  When
> > > > you run it it takes a look at all installed  ports and
> > > > then it decides what order to upgrade the ports and
> > > > their dependencies.  Portupgrade proceeds linearly and
> > > > you may need to run it a few more times for everything
> > > > to be upgraded.  At least that's how I understand it.
> > > >
> > > But the -rR tells it to look at all of the dependancies and build them 
> > > if they need to be. In addition, if something depends on it, it will 
> > > also build them. 
> > >
> > > I don't see any differance.
> >
> > Further, the assertion by petermatulis at yahoo.ca that
> > portupgrade 
> > requires multiple passes is just plain false.  I
> > upgrade over 230 
> > ports on my laptop with one command.
>
> may == requires ?

Well, I just totally rebuilt all of the ports on my machine (330 to be
exact) with just one command also:

portmanager -u -f -l -y

Obviously, I updated the ports tree prior to running that command. It is
my own opinion that portmanager does a better job. That is my own
personal opinion however --  YMMV.

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Gerard Seibert
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