From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 14 04:02:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1E916A422 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 04:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868F743D58 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 04:02:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so847548pya for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 21:02:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=t7U2UkpqzrC7mYxCwPNbqFDzHhY0A0kg/i8c0hO9AlV8PfL8pq0eER4YAi1+4/yucQ2bEB9HyjKufNGRXH7bGFH4zTEix9ThfIkMnLPjsSc8WvRiLDrOKqU7VdxDsWkVQ3K8QzrfEmU81Gu8In0cjeP2+DkLK0aw+pL3r3tubhs= Received: by 10.35.90.20 with SMTP id s20mr1510888pyl; Sat, 13 May 2006 21:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.13.3 with HTTP; Sat, 13 May 2006 21:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 00:02:32 -0400 From: "David Stanford" To: "wc_fbsd@xxiii.com" In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060513234344.02ebfd00@mailsvr.xxiii.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <000301c676b3$9f398b90$6603a8c0@zeus> <6.2.3.4.2.20060513234344.02ebfd00@mailsvr.xxiii.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Tom Moore , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cvsup verses Portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 04:02:46 -0000 Yea, Colin's the man. http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ highlights all the beneifts. -David On 5/13/06, wc_fbsd@xxiii.com wrote: > > At 01:35 PM 5/13/2006, Tom Moore wrote: > >Which program is best for retrieving and keeping the ports tree up > >to date? What are some pros and cons of each approach? Is one method > >better than the other? > > I just discovered portsnap a couple months ago after loading a couple > new machines with 6.0. It is AWESOME (thanks, Colin! (the guy that > developed it)). > > Do not even screw with cvsup for your ports. portsnap is faster, > easier, and (I'm told) even lower bandwith and server > overhead. About the only downside, is it has a directory in /var/db > that was about 50MB with a bunch of little files last I looked, and I > suspect it grows with time. But what's disk space these days? > > -Wayne > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >