Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

[Robert Backhaus]

On 4/18/07, Adam Stroud <adam.p.stroud at baesystems.com> wrote:
>
> All:
>
> I was just on the FreeBSD "list of projects and ideas fot volunteers"
> page and I was wondering if anyone was working on the "portupgrade in C"
> utility.  I would be willing to help (code/document/test) if it's needed.
>
> I think that some projects were started, but did not go very far.

The current consensus is that portmaster, which is a collection of sh
scripts,
should be further developed and eventually committed to the base system.

The developer of portmaster is one of those who does not really like that
idea.