Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:25:38 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap Message-ID: <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to > run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem > if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command > again to initialize the ports tree? > > Thanks My personal opinion is: you're going to be unhappy if you do that. The first time you use portsnap, it takes a while, but after that initial use and setup, nothing can touch it for speed. I used to use portsdb once upon a time, but the ruby bug finally hit me and I had to look for other means to accomplish the same task. Now I use portversion (`portversion -v | grep needs` updates portsdb, pkgdb and outputs a list of packages needing updating) which does it faster and better. Don
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