From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 17:03:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CDA16A41F; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:03:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr (postfix4-2.free.fr [213.228.0.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9BF43D49; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:03:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E96032345B; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:03:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j79H34VY023116; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:03:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:02:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508091902.57044.thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Colin Percival Subject: Re: Portsnap is now in the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:03:14 -0000 Le Tuesday 9 August 2005 11:04, Colin Percival a écrit : > About 12 hours ago I committed portsnap to HEAD. From the commit log: > > Add portsnap to the base system. This is a secure, easy to use, > fast, lightweight, and generally good way for users to keep their > ports trees up to date. > Hello, I've had a look at the man page(s), and at the web page on http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ I'm still missing one piece of information : how are the ports snapshots initially built ? One misfeature of cvs is the possibility to fetch incomplete updates to the repository (no atomic commits in cvs, and this must be carried over to cvsup). Do "your" snapshots behave better in this domain ? As one last question : I assume the same process of building "coherent" snapshots could be also applied to the core cvs repository of the full FreeBSD project, and a cvs-snap utility could be imagined ? Thanks for Portsnap and FreeBSD Update TfH