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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:

> I don't know about portsnap, if you use csup (V6.1 or newer) or cvsup,
> you should delete your ports tree first! (rm -rf /usr/ports/*). 

Not necessarily; there are other ways to handle the situation.

> These programs keep a record of what files have been updated and their
> versions and they will not know about any files already in your ports
> tree but no longer in CVS. This can leave you system with orphans that
> might include patch files which might cause builds to fail, or worse,
> cause apps to mis-behave.

You can use a lot less bandwidth by getting the bookkeeping correct
first, and then updating.  In that case, it will all work properly.
http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#adopt