From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 13:04:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975FB16A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:04:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3058E43D48 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:04:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.50]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00C91S5DCQ90@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:00:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00HT2S5DAMB0@pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:00:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKU0060SS5BRJ@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:00:48 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:00:47 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050807125347.GA43837@voodoo.oberon.net> To: Kirill Ponomarew Message-id: <42F605FF.7020403@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <42F59AA8.2030605@freebsd.org> <20050807125347.GA43837@voodoo.oberon.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: Jeremy Messenger , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:04:45 -0000 Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:22:48PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >>Portsnap will not remove any ports which it doesn't know about. Portsnap >>will only remove local modifications when they are in a port or infrastructure >>file (e.g., Mk/*) which portsnap is updating to a newer version. > > Is portsnap also immune to Makefile.inc[local] and doesn't delete > them during update ? Portsnap only removes files or directories if they are in the way. If ports/foo/bar doesn't exist in the ports tree, then portsnap will not touch /usr/ports/foo/bar. If ports/fizzle/baz exists in the ports tree, then portsnap will delete /usr/ports/fizzle/baz the next time that "portsnap extract" is executed (which shouldn't happen very often, since that extracts a complete new ports tree) or after the next time that ports/fizzle/baz is updated in the ports tree. Colin Percival