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On 9 Jan 2006, at 09:01, Albert Shih wrote:

> Hi all
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> What's the advantage of portsnap vs old-fashion cvsup ?

cvsup only runs on a very limited set of architectures and forces you  
to build or fetch INDEX files yourself.

Having said that, it's useful in non ports/ situations too.

Ceri

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