On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 01:23:32PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:42:43AM -0700, Chris H wrote: > > Greetings, > > I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild after > > an updating > > src && ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which is > > why I've > > waited so long. Try as I might, I've had great difficulty finding something > > that will > > _only_ upgrade what I already have installed, _and_ respect the "options" > > used during the > > original make && make install, or those options expressed in make.conf. > > As portupgrade(1) && portmaster(8) appear to be the most used in this > > scenario, > > I'm soliciting opinions on which of these works best, or if there is > > something else to > > better manage this situation. Is there such a thing as a FreeBSD upgrade > > "easy button"? > > Use portmaster, avoid portupgrade. And no I will not expand on my > reasoning -- I urge anyone even mentioning the word portupgrade to spend > a few hours of their day reading the horror stories on the mailing lists > over the past 10 years or so (including recently). Choose wisely.
Well, just to offer a counter-opinion here, I use portupgrade and feel that it has improved significantly over the past year or two and has become quite usable. I run it every two to four weeks on about five systems and haven't had any problems with it in a long time. However, YMMV. I do get ports that won't build from time to time, but I haven't seen any connection between their failures and portupgrade. -- Bob Willcox | The future lies ahead. b...@immure.com | Austin, TX | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
