On Sat 2009-11-07 19:19:52 UTC-0800, Randi Harper (ra...@freebsd.org) wrote:
> Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of > base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update. > It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on > that. > For your system, use freebsd-update. Seconded. Portsnap and freebsd-update are a cinch to use. > For your ports tree, use portsnap. For installed ports, use > portupgrade or portmanager. I'm more fond of portmanager, but it seems > portupgrade has many more users. Both portupgrade and portmanager are > available in the ports tree, not base. I use portmaster and find it easy to use. Not familiar with portmanager. /usr/ports/UPDATING will often provide portmaster commands where necessary and these can useful for upgrading some ports. Maybe it's easy to translate those commands to their equivalent portmanager commands. Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
