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Date:      Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:30 +0400
From:      Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?
Message-ID:  <20110615084430.GG5630@external.screwed.box>
In-Reply-To: <20110615085122.1d4ae0be@gumby.homeunix.com>
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You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
2011/06/15 08:51:22 +0100 RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
R> > - From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file it
R> > had ever downloaded: they all have different times.
R> 
R> It doesn't, it's a snapshot. The timestamps just reflect the last time
R> each particular object was updated.

Hmm... looks like only a current ports state is kept in those tars:

$ tar -ztf /var/db/portsnap/files/12312e0e54a707a22613b0394a976c9d2044e98728b51c592d6e9a42c989300c.gz 
Makefile
distinfo
pkg-descr
pkg-plist

such a single '.gz' extension was a false hint to me those are diffs.
Thanks all.

73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB  12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627)
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