From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 21:40:33 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 4755316A404 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 21:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from enlil65@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B227143D4C for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 21:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from enlil65@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id l1so538418nzf for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=aFmPHs+UdfzEFqvwkoV8HvPrJKnjHlqmzrs93imXraqFIWGcfWdnOwMTu4/6lT3ZIB1o1m7c3R1/lmY3nT7rI2++IktxUSgyauafmkFhZR+D1biQzporf1/ohxciiiKelOal/EKafRwjz/nuXLL6LVq0ehGUh6C09a+XW//Q8OQ= Received: by 10.65.235.15 with SMTP id m15mr4966qbr; Thu, 04 May 2006 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.215.6 with HTTP; Thu, 4 May 2006 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:40:32 -0500 From: "Peggy Wilkins" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"? 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: Thu, 04 May 2006 21:40:33 -0000 I just recently started using portsnap in lieu of cvsup on my ports tree for FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. I thought it was supposed to be more efficient than cvsup, but I'm finding it to be worse. I followed the directions from the Handbook that say to run "portsnap fetch update" to update the ports tree (assuming it's already been set up previously, which I did a couple weeks ago)... but when the fetch finished, it told me that I needed to "run extract before update". Unfortunately, extract takes forever to run, so this is much worse than running cvsup. Am I doing something wrong? I thought I was following the directions in the Handbook. I ran extract the first time I did it, before running update, why do I need to run it again? -- Peggy Wilkins enlil65@gmail.com