On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Mitja <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:04:09 Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? > > > > Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages to upgrade > > your system. portmaster can create them (by adding the -g option) - but > > not use them. This is the reason we use portupgrade at work where we > > have several FreeBSD servers which shares /usr/ports. > > > > > Is there also a way back, i.e. from portmaster to portupgrade? > > > > No problem at all. You can even have both installed. If you upgrade your > > outdated port with portupgrade, portmaster will not try to upgrade it > > and vice versa, unless you force it to (which makes no sense). > > I am more than one year FreeBSD user :), started with 7.0 and I have to > used > portupgrade but later I did change to portmaster which I like it but few > day > ago I had a problem (on FreeBSD 7.1) with update. Here is a link to the > FreeBSD forum where I asked about a problem. > Today I installed portupgrade and update was without problem. > > Are there some problem with portmaster on 7.1? > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" >
believe so since I remember seeing the author talk about patching portmaster. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
