updating ports

[Glen Barber]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:10:55PM -0800, Dru Lavigne wrote:
> 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.
> 

Glen

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