From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 05:32:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433B916A41F; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao01.cox.net (eastrmmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E0C43D49; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by eastrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050807053211.BPOO12912.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:32:11 -0400 To: "Colin Percival" References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <42F59AA8.2030605@freebsd.org> Message-ID: Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:33:36 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42F59AA8.2030605@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.02 (Linux, build 1272) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:32:15 -0000 On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:22:48 -0500, Colin Percival wrote: > Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> Will portsnap improvement on to not delete any unoffical ports? I have >> about 15 unoffical ports here in local machine and they are living in >> /usr/ports for other tools' sake like portupgrade/pkgdb. I have never >> use it, but I read in the bottom of >> http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ . > > Portsnap will not remove any ports which it doesn't know about. Portsnap > will only remove local modifications when they are in a port or > infrastructure > file (e.g., Mk/*) which portsnap is updating to a newer version. Good, thanks! Cheers, Mezz > Colin Percival -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org