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Portupgrade is a tool to upgrade installed packages via ports or
packages.  It upgrades installed packages without reinstalling
depending or dependent packages by directly updating the package
registry database located under /var/db/pkg, while it can also trace
dependency chains up and down and upgrade packages recursively.

This package also includes the following utilities (and more!):
portinstall:    Helps you install new ports in a handy way.
        Equivalent to `portupgrade -N'.
portcvsweb: Instantly browses a history via CVSweb.
portversion:    Replaces pkg_version(8).  This runs much faster and is
        cooperative with portupgrade.
portsclean: Cleans ports workdir's and unreferenced distfiles.
portsdb:    Creates binary database from the ports INDEX.
pkg_deinstall:  A wrapper of pkg_delete with wildcards and dependency
        recursion support and some more.
pkg_glob:   Expands package globs.
pkgdepfix:  Fixes the /var/db/pkg registry interactively.

Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>