# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-06-26 19:29:27 +0100: > On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:12, Maher Mohamed wrote: > > can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make > > install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports? > > portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade which > you can use to build and install ports. It can do some things which > you can't do with a simple 'make install'. For example, I often > use portinstall to create packages for a port and its dependancies. As in (make package-recursive)?
That's not to say that portinstall isn't useful, I use it most of the time, FWIW. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"