pkg and portmaster together

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Mage

The only reason why I haven’t switched from ports-mgmt/portmaster to ports-mgmt/pkg is that the binary postgresql9x-server packages do not have UTF-8 (ICU) support. At least the last time I checked they didn’t.

For this reason I have no experience with updating my servers with pkg, but I guess it would make my life easier.

Is there a safe and easy way to upgrade most of the packages with ports-mgmt/pkg and a couple of them with ports-mgmt/portmaster? I mean "safe" as something that is okay to do on production servers on regular basis. Manual checking if everything is compatible with everything does not qualify.

Any hint is appreciated.
 
If you have to maintain several servers I highly recommend setting up ports-mgmt/poudriere and building your own repository. That way you can select the options you want and benefit from pkg(8) to easily update your servers.
 
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