Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:19:57 +0000 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com>
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On 28/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to > > run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem > > if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command > > again to initialize the ports tree? > > > > Thanks > > My personal opinion is: you're going to be unhappy if you do that. The > first time you use portsnap, it takes a while, but after that initial > use and setup, nothing can touch it for speed. > > I used to use portsdb once upon a time, but the ruby bug finally hit me > and I had to look for other means to accomplish the same task. Now I > use portversion (`portversion -v | grep needs` updates portsdb, pkgdb > and outputs a list of packages needing updating) which does it faster > and better. > > Don Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 box I use the version from ports and portsnap fetch takes about 20-30 minutes to fetch 2000 port patches, which takes a few seconds on the base version, I discovered the base version doesnt fetch from a url but instead of a new server. I contacted the dev and he confirmed the ports version is old so I guess the ports maintainer needs to update it until that is done I dont reccomend it for 5.3 and older. Chris
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