[nycbug-talk] Monitoring programs

[Marc Spitzer]

On 8/21/05, Kevin Reiter <tux at penguinnetwerx.net> wrote:
> 
> I installed it via ports via make install (as I do almost everything.)  I
> plan on trying it again once I'm finished with the test box I'm using for
> another project, which *should* be this week sometime.  I'll let you know
> if I have better luck using portinstall...

The version management for the freebsd ports tree sucks big time, if
the exec/so is installed it does not even bother to check for version
info.  Pkgsrc does a much better job in this case.  Freebsd punts by
using 3rd party tools, portupgrade for example.

marc