From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 15:13:37 2008 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 C8F821065670 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (mail-ew0-f21.google.com [209.85.219.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CD18FC08 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so613514ewy.19 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:13:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JvO0pFaQ/JFLJa0W6EyHr5yoLAJjLXE8D0msZlnQS1M=; b=fZdfeL/ckOo+gozBlP1VYaK2NlVEataC0XjCTRdYLHGy0ngZhlCxeemDIJ6Ez/dJ9A b5bVq2qpVWe+FLb2DsZwpj18zHTnt9rZIi1pngvL4M1ZjRncM6mg4ocZJ4f/iSr0s7WA GGPAbMCI9SqloM7sPkirjJLJXf5EFTL3YySqs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qAWQm61biuRXL8Qy5UB0/nDGEbys+cHKjHrqngP4sFjfabPqlIyVxQKnEFnzPp81uS HP1YqUH7K9/tnUzJ6wOLTkcZippvJ0KDaZkOwqgS6LPvwNUSdEua6J/Q6jm7Iu3eKqvF jfoTVsqcXtHou12ouXgLGA4V658nXBe7HnSMQ= Received: by 10.210.131.6 with SMTP id e6mr2395466ebd.77.1229613216211; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:13:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b30sm20092090ika.19.2008.12.18.07.13.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:13:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:24 +0000 From: RW To: Pieter Donche , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081218151324.698ccb72@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20081218124318.09f16d42@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade 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, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:37 -0000 [ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ] On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche wrote: > > 'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install > during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on the > FREEBDSD-7.0-RELEASE CD's ? Yes > If so, if you have did create a /usr/ports from sysinstall, then only > a portsnap fetch has to be done, and no portsnap extract > but only a portsnap update when you need updating a program you > installed previously from the ports tree ? Portsnap doesn't know about anything in the ports tree that it didn't put there itself. For that reason it needs to bring the tree to an initial known-state by replacing all port directories and other files. For the same reason you shouldn't mix portsnap and c[v]sup. > But is it then not better to do a portsnap upgrade immmediatly after > that first portsnap fetch, since fetch will only get compressed .gz > files (not decompressed to /usr/ports), so /usr/ports will still be > of the date of the release of the 7.0 (febr. 2008) ? The extract will bring the tree up-to-date with the fetched snapshot. You could use extract instead of update all the time, except that it's slower and deletes user generated files in the ports directories (e.g. README.html).