Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:44:32 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port/source snap the ports/kernel source Message-ID: <20051124034432.GA13830@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051124025913.GM876@whatluo> References: <20051124025913.GM876@whatluo>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:59:13AM +0800, Huajian.Luo wrote: > Hi there, >=20 > After I upgrade my box to 6.0, I found that portsnap is currently > in the base system. I'm curious that why we need invent a tool that > just fetch the ports.tar.gz from mirror, while can not fetch the=20 > kernel source, while I can make it by wget the ports.tar.gz even behind > a firewall and extract it to the /usr/ports and update all softwares > by portupgrade. >=20 > What I wonder is that why there is no sourcesnap alike tools or why > there is no daily snapshots like src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz that we can > use portsnap/wget to snap it to local disk. and the CVSup's drawbacks > have drew many users away from it. Well, there is. First, you can download the source tree from the FTP sites if you wanted to. Secondly, freebsd update does binary upgrades..it is the analogue of portsnap, but it doesn't download the source for you to recompile, it directly updates the compiled binaries. Kris --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDhTcgWry0BWjoQKURAozRAKDvkcoEYPmdtF5PV6YxuCWy1SJ2eACgsb7z Y9XDHlRng5Az0kDkVSFLpE8= =sBBp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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