From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 27 15:28:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF1D515 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D40D721 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id dr13so1234385wgb.14 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:28:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TSl56DV6BNP1724VERMaXETg8JL0EZRVWN/8AERLX2w=; b=vzeJIEopugCQNOB8iTkPbXFcNbAR6X4SbnmCjNiZugk9+bMUu6KljuqsTWnAyIV7P6 fnmQBv7RxfkCV5ucBNNmDE/9c1RfeUVSGRv+CpF1B/2SxzJo6ivqafnG9HiZim0sCEKR Tc+MXy+RuDeDJgDk8DAbFd0TVNXL0KdknjVjQTadpZmyg3NkD+w9SlYdQtyjfI7Cg1vy +sEz4QbTVqQAkXcBLiXkuNyGo0w/0OHUl3vfgUKjoU13lSk4L343kagZmsAh7hVF/23K Yv6UQ6jPvOVM18YYYAM2LzhkGOFkI6TCrfYB8uWRmCE5S2zNZQUfiXBHQ4XGqg5yO/SA B4oA== X-Received: by 10.194.119.5 with SMTP id kq5mr16812476wjb.48.1359300518013; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:28:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id be1sm8418115wib.10.2013.01.27.07.28.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:28:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:34 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What? Message-ID: <20130127152834.1d7b8201@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201301270951.13292.mrkvrg@acm.org> References: <20130127001805.97F0119B@hub.freebsd.org> <5104E6B7.9070302@aboutsupport.com> <5105057F.3090108@FreeBSD.org> <201301270951.13292.mrkvrg@acm.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:39 -0000 On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a > number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where > I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More > specifically I manually edited /usr/ports/UPDATING and portsnap did > not recognise the change and download a proper copy. I don't see why that's a problem. The function of "portsnap update" is to update files in the tree that have been updated, deleted or added in the repository. Resynchronising the tree and it's metadata with the snapshot is what "portsnap extract" is for.