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On 01/12/2013 05:20 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
>>
>>         man portsnap
>>
>> Does is work on non amd64/i386 arches
>> (sparc64 and ia64 specifically)?
> 
> Honestly couldn't tell you, as I have no experience with or access to
> non-x86 systems.

portsnap is a shell script.  I don't how it could fail in any
architecture, as long as standard utilities like tar and gunzip work.