From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 18:16:20 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 60593106564A for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:16:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C80E8FC19 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so726904yxb.13 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:16:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=evLimpHvEJ+1G40FEvUBR3u/2rYfVCqh2NIPgF2AJJA=; b=D1sii10CngjKgFCPgQ/hTzmeJBSkoixRfO+Vjl0dF0LWH1V5LK7MPsD+E/f9ygy5dR cMYBIJsk+FfY+SyHqZNyWXXs6M18LKgi2f/JY3BTYaOKcjkwNFSl8K5n+Wf7Gql7NEEm jzKQp6f/6s29D0RJfnsc0L4aGTybT/P2TWYXo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=muxhITWCIXwvMugHch4DKs68zfvUzQhuKhNYCS+XFaBgKsKX0FjVMt5/vITao1VnLz kY0tUngm3+6pd7RBDm53fmN17LzTicTMhQhdA9DuTnBUmdS+zUUjU/tX26Ms952DfyXG wmOj/xQIAj7KQphogq8dOB1VAqmuaPcCewkVI= Received: by 10.142.107.1 with SMTP id f1mr916939wfc.140.1229624178949; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:16:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.165.8 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:16:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <139b44430812181016pf479572ne398fc89b57df62d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:16:18 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" To: "Tom Worster" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20081218171203.GG5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Daniel Bye , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:16:20 -0000 On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, "Daniel Bye" wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> > >> So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, > >> upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right? > > > > Yes. As RW has already noted, extract will replace the entire ports tree > > with the pristine version in portsnap's archive. > > so if one plans to do portsnap fetch; portsnap extract after installing > freebsd from a release CD on a new machine, there's no point in installing > the ports collection from the CD using sysinstall? As far as i see things no it makes no sense to install the ports tree from CD. I have never installed ports from CD because all the computers running freebsd have an internet connection and the first thing i do is to fetch the updated ports tree. a great day, v > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >