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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:14:33 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gemeral questions (noobish)
Message-ID:  <20080803131433.56480f6b@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <200808030557.00555.gnemmi@gmail.com>
References:  <200808021550.48302.marshc187@gmail.com> <200808030531.35062.gnemmi@gmail.com> <20080803084117.GA1862@bacardi.frase.id.au> <200808030557.00555.gnemmi@gmail.com>

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:57:00 -0300
Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:41:19 you wrote:

> > Well, yes.  `portsnap cron update` if running from cron. My point
> > was that you can do fetch and update in one operation :)
> 
> Oh sure !
> 
> But check this out, this is interesting (at least for me): by using
> the -I flag I only update the INDEX file and not the whole port tree.
> 
> From man portsnap:
> "-I           For the update command, update INDEX files, but not the
> rest of the ports tree."
> 
> Now why would I want to do that?
> Well .. bandwith basically.. since Im running "portsnap cron update"
> via cron, on a daily basis, I don't want to hammer the repos for no
> real reason ;)

I don't think that makes a difference, the -I option prevents
portsnap from updating the ports tree from the local compressed
snapshot, but AFAIK you're still updating the snapshot from the server.






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