>> Currently, there are 2 Handbook sections that deal with upgrading ports: >> >> 5.6.3. Upgrading Ports (which describes the use of the portmaster and >> portupgrade ports) >> >> and >> >> 23.3. Portsnap: a Ports Collection Update Tool (which describes the built-in >> portsnap) >> >> I would like to combine these into 5.6.3. >> >> Do we want to encourage the use of third-party utils or just encourage the >> use of the built in one? >> > >I think there are two separate topics here (without having looked at the >Handbook sections yet). I don't think portmaster and portupgrade >actually handle updating the ports tree itself, but handle >upgrading/rebuilding ports within the ports tree. > >Portsnap, on the other hand, does not actually touch the software >installed (meaning, it does not update the installed third-party >software), but only handles updating the ports tree sources themselves. > >> If just the built in one, I'll replace 5.6.3 with the contents of 23.3 and >> reduce portmaster/portupgrade to a note that these utils are available in >> the ports collection. >> >> If we should describe all three, I'll place 23.3 as the first utility to be >> described in 5.6.3.
Good catch...and I see that portsnap is already covered in Procedure 5.1 of section 5.6. I'll submit a patch some time this week. Cheers, Dru _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
