From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 8:56:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A9114C92 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 08:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04167; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 08:55:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38245C51.109942B9@owp.csus.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 08:50:25 -0800 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staying current with ports... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Is cvsupping ports the same as DLing the 7 meg .tgz file with the > ports collection in it? > > -jonathon > In a word, no. The idea is that you just get the differences between the current ports collection and your version of the ports collection. The amount of data transferred depends on how much has changed in the ports collection since your version. Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message