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Subject: portsnap recreates /usr/ports for no apparent reason
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hello,

i've just discovered strange and unexpected behaviour of portsnap:
i configured sudo to allow me to run the script with the following contents:
/usr/sbin/portsnap fetch
/usr/sbin/portsnap update
/usr/local/sbin/portversion -v -l "<"
/usr/local/sbin/portaudit -Fda
to be precise -- i allow my user to run (via sudo) any of the programs
above plus the script itself.
now when i first ran the script as a normal user via sudo, portsnap
deleted and recreated the whole /usr/ports directory structure.
subsequent runs went as expected. then i ran the script from root as i
had been always doing and again portsnap deleted and recreated the whole
ports directory structure.
i guess this is not intended right?
or am i missing something here?

cheers,

martin