Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:28:53 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??") Message-ID: <200608211529.03858.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <44EA0352.7020206@u.washington.edu> References: <web-573050583@mailsvc.com> <200608211444.50152.gerard@seibercom.net> <44EA0352.7020206@u.washington.edu>
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--nextPart1557305.LkL1oDpb5I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 August 2006 15:02, Garrett Cooper wrote: > =A0 =A0 CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more > efficient way to download the ports Makefiles. It will take him all of > 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the > example file. I am always willing to learn something new. How is it more efficient at=20 downloading the port's Makefiles? I agree that the first time you=20 run 'portsnap' it might take twenty minutes to fetch and extract the files.= =20 However, after that it only requires a fetch and update to complete the job= =2E=20 It appears, to me anyway, to run at least as quick as cvsup plus I do not=20 have to rebuild the index. If he runs cvsup I believe he has to rebuild the= =20 index, or am I mistaken? In any case, he has to use one method or the other or he will never get his= =20 system updated. =2D-=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Schopenhauer --nextPart1557305.LkL1oDpb5I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6gl/s3R1WQUU6lgRAvWWAJ9R6CBeTlA3MDN3fUNcBbs4bzmnbACdF+PH 7BlTA63L69YpfpcJiGyraP0= =qQ/Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1557305.LkL1oDpb5I--
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