From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 9 06:55:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35841065672 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 06:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993E08FC0C for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 06:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so4494180obc.13 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:55:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=8QEcDPq0VUukrPzoeAgoSc3z4S5Ngs1OKsbo3jJbcNQ=; b=UUn6ntIAwzFSptiFbKuJrw++/wIlcLPUXdzlK0Jw50ztoiGd/KDQJVE3Z3Ln21fb8a 5e4RRtuU5OWYqYbMK0g6Ck+9gQa++QEWOpPV+9r/X5vfGoD0D0atodY38/WBI55Oh6OF 9D920KLKjoqCcKkOZuee0axs5PDRTsBAGpy3A= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=8QEcDPq0VUukrPzoeAgoSc3z4S5Ngs1OKsbo3jJbcNQ=; b=lMTPU236oj3gJc5gYiHe8Jgci+/Ojaz/Ybf9gLXK5MbwE7QkbWPHQsYpOorQesvj3B NMb+OQD6D8eCMz37RV2vS3nMXyneNIjJE8QwxAhwYhJgJqUyTroiOvEFuY2FzsGrgJ7t UVhabfp/QnR/K203Qav7Z7QmI+hTPSA8n59PFohUSerK29NpbSlYydj90sCxTwWdT8Sm JaPLyXAYFnTjrM1YaUoIuzMbk3/IKJVQeqFu+nCQm8XVTwt1PKtOF/QURiSVc6DSHrkQ CUdAIW7nxjdGaH54U2G1Vd1TFV+UAodaaBoYwfQLkkV9yuiKq5brayvk1Ko0uX7SHOhi YSvQ== Received: by 10.182.187.42 with SMTP id fp10mr9839706obc.30.1339224905969; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:55:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.204.69 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:54:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120609082134.42a36d30.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4FD2E7EF.1060208@dreamchaser.org> <20120609082134.42a36d30.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:54:35 -0700 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmMVbeFwtdIN/OZpTHrslZeHmoccADSA7JdGtSuWP0Wx5T59aCcU1DAXFW5GPgfiVQWw0dU Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: prune ports tree? 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: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:55:07 -0000 On 8 June 2012 23:21, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:06:39 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? > This approach does _not_ work well when using portsnap. From > the portsnap.conf manpage: "Note that operating with an incomplete > ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results." Note that the issue of incomplete ports trees has nothing to do with portsnap - it is unsupported no matter how you obtain ports. -- Eitan Adler