freebsd-ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel/pkg-descr
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Portupgrade is a tool to upgrade installed packages via ports or
packages. Also, it allows you to install new ports/packages in a
handy way.
It upgrades installed packages without reinstalling depending or
dependent packages by directly updating the package registry database
located under /var/db/pkg. Moreover, it can trace dependency chains
up and down and upgrade packages recursively.
This package also includes the following utilities:
portinstall: This is an equivalent to `portupgrade -N', which means
it by default tries to install a new one when a
specified package is not installed.
portversion: This is a replacement of pkg_version(8), which runs
faster than pkg_version and is cooperative with
portupgrade.
portsdb: This is a tool to create, update or look up ports
database, which is made from the ports index file.
pkgdepfix: This is an interactive tool to fix /var/db/pkg's
@pkgdep vs. +REQUIRED_BY discrepancies, and stale or
missing origins, optionally.
Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>