Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:41:22 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181635090.12036@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <20081218151324.698ccb72@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181105160.2794@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be><20081218124318.09f16d42@gumby.homeunix.com><Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181358230.7477@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <20081218151324.698ccb72@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, RW wrote: > > [ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ] > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET) > Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> 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. So, do you confirm my statement that only a portsnap update is OK? >> 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). So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right?
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