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On 2008-May-13, at 1:27 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:

> My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser extent, /usr/ 
> src)
> goes something like this:
>
>    1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once)
>
>    2. use csup to update to HEAD
>
>    3. build
>
> The problem is step 2. It takes a very long time for csup to apply the
> latest changes from the cvsup servers to the tree, even if my previous
> csup session was only the previous day.


Have you tried using portsnap?  It's a binary snapshot of the ports  
tree:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html

Derek