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Old 25th June 2008
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Originally Posted by Redroar View Post
I was wondering what is the best way to handle binary package upgrading...I know about portupgrade -P, and it sounds like exactly what I need. Except for the fact that everyone says that portupgrade is a nightmare.
I haven't tried it, but there is a new(ish) port maintainer called pkg_replace (it's in the ports tree). I know that it also supports pkg_replace -P for binary packages.

IIRC pkg_replace is written in C instead of ruby and does not use an external database (like portupgrade does with pkgdb).
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