Polytropon writes:
> > I am now thinking which one is better.
>
> I have used portupgrade / portinstall in the past, but I think
> portmaster really is the way to go, at least for me,
As far as I can tell, for 90-95% of tasks they're
indistinguishable. If (generic) you have special
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700
Pongthep Kulkrisada articulated:
> > Programs like portmaster can be really helpful here.
> Yes, it is what I am expecting. Thank you.
> I read the handbook. There are 2 choices i.e. portmanager and
> portmaster. I am now thinking which one is better.
> I must
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada
wrote:
> I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports installed on my system (including X).
> I would probably not do so.
The pkg_add utility is especially useful when building a new
installation from scratch, because it additionally automaticall
Hi Polytropon,
Firstly, thanks for your suggestion.
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
> You can consider using "pkgadd -r" to install binary packages.
> Those are quite synchon with the ports tree (as they are
> centrally built from the ports tree).
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports in
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:30:04 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada
wrote:
> But it takes very long time to rebuild all ports.
> Main problem is KDE, big big ports.
> Okay, I shall do it, when I have time.
You can consider using "pkgadd -r" to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon with the ports t
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
> Yes, it's not enough.
>
> When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from
> 7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any
> libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version
> of the f
