Installing and upgrading ports
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Oct 18 15:56:03 UTC 2006
Jonathan Arnold writes:
> So there are three competing technologies - portupgrade,
> portmaster, and portmanage. And I'm not even sure what any of
> them offer over the simple 'make install clean' method.
Simple make/make install will take care of upstream
dependencies; portupgrade (and probably the others) will also take
care of downstream ports.
This is particaularly useful in cases like the recent bump of
GNOME components.
Robert Huff
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