From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 9 13:22:40 2012 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 1F1C4106566B for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABA38FC0C for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TAhT8-00056r-2P for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:22:34 +0200 Received: from p4fc54614.dip.t-dialin.net ([79.197.70.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:22:34 +0200 Received: from jumper99 by p4fc54614.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:22:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Helmut Schneider" Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20120909130611.da2409e4.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fc54614.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.320 X-Ref: news.gmane.org ~XNS:0000005B X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120909-0, 09.09.2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: svn and/or portsnap 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: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:22:40 -0000 C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Helmut Schneider > wrote: > > Currently I'm updating ports and src twice a day so I will keep > > using svn for both. > > While you certainly can, isn't it a bit excessive to update so > frequently? Remember, it's not just fetching the sources and ports, > you must also compile world and ports if you want to stay current. I > highly doubt that you want to do this twice a day, even on a very > fast machine. I meant I fetch sources for src and ports twice a day. While ports helps me to track most recent changes src indeed might not require an update twice a day.