Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse <cwhi...@onetel.com> wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or
two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been
down to an individual ports.
I've never seen any reasons given for not using portmanager, just it
seems to be getting quietly deprecated, which is a shame because it
works supremely well.
Having said that why not check out
http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/, the new binary ports upgrade
system and save yourself a bunch of compile time.
Chris
I use it myself, It "just works". I would also add "-p -l" to the
command line. that way you have a log created if something does go
wrong. It will also fix up any outdated dependencies.
I do use logging. In fact I do 'portmanager -s > somefile', extract a
list of ports to be upgraded and run the list through a loop which does
'make config' for each port, _then_ run 'portmanager -l -u' so it runs
completely unattended. It does indeed "just works" which is down to the
way it works out to do leaf ports first and work backwards.
portmaster looks like it has some nice features, including doing all the
configs first, but I don't know if it does as good a job as portmanager
in deciding what order to do things.
Chris
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