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From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> The major difficulty in "only updating packages that have changed" is
> identifying those packages.  You can't compare the tarballs because

Is it safe to use PORTVERSION? You'd still have to catch compiler updates
and the like with some other mechanism...

Andrew


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