On 2014-02-03 20:20, Glen Barber wrote: > 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 > A section that discusses portmaster should probably talk about the similar functionality that is now 'pkg upgrade', which wasn't possible with the pkg_* tools
-- Allan Jude
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