On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:10:55PM -0800, Dru Lavigne wrote: > Currently, there are 2 Handbook sections that deal with upgrading ports: > > 5.6.3. Upgrading Ports (which describes the use of the portmaster and > portupgrade ports) > > and > > 23.3. Portsnap: a Ports Collection Update Tool (which describes the built-in > portsnap) > > I would like to combine these into 5.6.3. > > Do we want to encourage the use of third-party utils or just encourage the > use of the built in one? >
I think there are two separate topics here (without having looked at the Handbook sections yet). I don't think portmaster and portupgrade actually handle updating the ports tree itself, but handle upgrading/rebuilding ports within the ports tree. Portsnap, on the other hand, does not actually touch the software installed (meaning, it does not update the installed third-party software), but only handles updating the ports tree sources themselves. > If just the built in one, I'll replace 5.6.3 with the contents of 23.3 and > reduce portmaster/portupgrade to a note that these utils are available in the > ports collection. > > If we should describe all three, I'll place 23.3 as the first utility to be > described in 5.6.3. > Glen
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