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Date:      Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:56:40 +0200
From:      Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   portsnap base thought
Message-ID:  <20050827185639.GA20018@dataloss.nl>

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Hi,

portsnap requires that the /usr/ports on a machine was created with
portsnap extract, before it will allow you to portsnap update.

Suggestion: make the portstree as delivered in 6.0-RELEASE (on the CD
etc.) compatible with portsnap extract, so people can use portsnap
from a base CD install without having to fetch the portstree through
portsnap first. I do realise this might bloat the CD image by about
50 megabytes (because of /var/db/portsnap) but I think it's worth it.

Cheers, Peter
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