From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 27 10:11:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1696B1 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E103F951 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout07 with smtp id sy7r1k002516WCc01y7s7T; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:07:52 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=H5sFNZki c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=Fu_n5yJQHbEA:10 a=WrV8zJ25IEQA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=Y_vyGYvwhgUA:10 a=sX4WxmL5i8iZqzbqyDAA:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1TzP9S-0001W8-GB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:07:51 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:07:49 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.8.4; amd64; ; ) References: <20130127001805.97F0119B@hub.freebsd.org> <5104F78B.8050408@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5104F78B.8050408@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201301271007.49978.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What? Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:02 -0000 On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote: > to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree. You only need > to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of > /usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do > (but keep anything under /usr/ports/distfiles and maybe > /usr/ports/packages). Something like: > > cd /usr > mv ports ports.old > mkdir ports > mv ports.old/distfiles ports/distfiles > mv ports.old/packages ports/packages > portsnap fetch extract > > Although this may be complicated if any of /usr/ports, > /usr/ports/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition > or ZFS. I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke