Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:05:12 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap Message-ID: <20090310140512.59b768e7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <367b2c980903100605i1f33bcc7ud6ed2ea08401d45b@mail.gmail.com> References: <630286c70903100541l6526c5eald501461d25805490@mail.gmail.com> <367b2c980903100605i1f33bcc7ud6ed2ea08401d45b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:05:16 +0100 Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org> wrote: > 2009/3/10 Nataraj S Narayan <natarajsn@gmail.com>: > > Hi > > > > After a 'portsnap fetch' is it portsnap extract or is it portsnap > > update? =A0What is the proper way? >=20 > Hello, >=20 > "portsnap extract" extracts the entire ports tree, "replacing existing > files and directories" (from the manpage). "portsnap update" only > extracts the updated ports (after a "portsnap fetch") since the last > extract or update. >=20 > Example : > Your ports tree is empty... you use "portsnap fetch extract". > After some time, some ports are updated. You use "portsnap fetch > update" to update your ports tree (after a fetch of course). Just to elaborate a little, you also need to do an extract if the tree has been obtained or updated by other means.
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