Re: Installing and upgrading ports
Eric wrote: i find portmaster all. give it a whirl. No dependencies, its actively maintained, etc. Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. 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. Doesn't the make method also take care of dependencies? All of them have a raft of options, most of which make me dizzy:-) I've been using portmanage, but only because the syntax is real easy. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing and upgrading ports
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing and upgrading ports
On Tuesday October 17, 2006 at 08:47:27 (AM) Jonathan Arnold wrote: I'm confused - what is sort of the consensus pick for best port tool? Usually, I just cd /usr/ports// and do a 'make install clean', but I've also tried portmanager and portupgrade, but I'm not sure when to prefer one to another. Should I stick with one? Will mixing matching confuse things? portupgrade seems to take a lot longer than portmanager. And where does the pkgdb command fit in? You could always do a 'man pkgdb' to get information regarding that utility. As far as 'portmanager' vs portupgrade' go, I think that it really boils down to your own preference. I usually prefer 'portmanager'; however, I still use 'portupgrade' on occasion. There is no know problem that I am aware of that arises from using one and then the other on you system. If you really want to rebuild your system applications I feel that 'portmanager -f -u' probably does a more through job than 'portupgrade'; but again that is just my opinion. -- Gerard It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is OS's job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing and upgrading ports
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday October 17, 2006 at 08:47:27 (AM) Jonathan Arnold wrote: I'm confused - what is sort of the consensus pick for best port tool? Usually, I just cd /usr/ports// and do a 'make install clean', but I've also tried portmanager and portupgrade, but I'm not sure when to prefer one to another. Should I stick with one? Will mixing matching confuse things? portupgrade seems to take a lot longer than portmanager. And where does the pkgdb command fit in? You could always do a 'man pkgdb' to get information regarding that utility. As far as 'portmanager' vs portupgrade' go, I think that it really boils down to your own preference. I usually prefer 'portmanager'; however, I still use 'portupgrade' on occasion. There is no know problem that I am aware of that arises from using one and then the other on you system. If you really want to rebuild your system applications I feel that 'portmanager -f -u' probably does a more through job than 'portupgrade'; but again that is just my opinion. i find portmaster all. give it a whirl. No dependencies, its actively maintained, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
