From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 17:27:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E83106564A for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barry@pdc4u.com) Received: from mail.pdc4u.com (mail.pdc4u.com [71.36.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465368FC0C for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 17:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barry@pdc4u.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pdc4u.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B130B6FF7; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:09:42 -0600 (MDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pdc4u.com Received: from mail.pdc4u.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailserver.pdc4u.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gETY71hYABzz; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:09:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.80.100] (unknown [192.168.80.100]) by mail.pdc4u.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C661EB6FF0; Fri, 29 May 2009 11:09:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Barry McCormick To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Pay Data Center Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:09:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1243616981.26778.6.camel@bmac-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Goodell Subject: difference between cvsup and portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: barry@pdc4u.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:27:42 -0000 Here at my work we use FreeBSD in production. We have the following debate and wish to know better the differences between cvsup(csup) and portsnap. One of my co-workers think that portsnap should NOT be used and only gets the latest and greatest port collection, no matter what version of FreeBSD is on the server. For example, if you are still running a 5.4 stable box in production and use any of the portsnap, portupgrade, etc utilities, you would pull the current version ports and NOT from teh directory of the 5.4 ports. I.E, risk breaking the production box. So you should not use portsnap ever except for dev boxes. I have always used portsnap to set up a new machine. I have never had it pull a wrong port that I knew of. I think it has to pay attention to the version of the ports it is pulling. which is right? This is a major issue with our production servers. Thanks