From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 01:19:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E9E16A420 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF82043D48 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:19:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so814401wra for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:19:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=jzKFDDx/IXZYJRn8ecWv6rV+gF0LwxxI4q4AXq6KjK0uJ44Ur+z/FkNlU4j53OsAm3KVSLPd6g2rvnRkNpCMkGTeG/Jo2Cfau/gnDu7C+QI14EKERqhvqtbPwW7O4VTM/B15ppl3FbQB9Mw77ZQ6yXVPZUGN8Cj5lO4ui+3uKF8= Received: by 10.54.117.15 with SMTP id p15mr2261176wrc; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.122.17 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:19:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:19:57 +0000 From: Chris To: "Donald J. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:19:58 -0000 On 28/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill 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