Portsnap Update Question
Eric
heli at mikestammer.com
Fri Oct 6 08:16:44 PDT 2006
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
>
> Also consider installing portaudit which tells you about installed ports
> which have security bugs which may affect you. You could consider only
> updating ports which have security holes, for example. And you'll at
> least be aware of what security issues might exist even if you don't fix
> them :-)
>
> Investigate portupgrade or portmanager for doing the updating. I prefer
> the former and it has a good man page.
>
> --Alex
>
>
portmaster is actively developed and a lot better than portmanager IMO.
also, it has no dependencies unlike portupgrade.
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