From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 11:23:12 2006 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 D311F16A420 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:23:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: from office.suresupport.com (office.suresupport.com [213.145.98.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB88143D48 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:23:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 85506 invoked by uid 1026); 16 Jan 2006 11:24:21 -0000 Received: from 213.145.98.14 by office.suresupport.com (envelope-from , uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.23 (f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. Clear:RC:1(213.145.98.14):. Processed in 0.144583 secs); 16 Jan 2006 11:24:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 14.98.145.213.in-addr.arpa) (213.145.98.14) by office.suresupport.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2006 11:24:21 -0000 From: Niki Denev To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:24:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601161324.57292.nike_d@cytexbg.com> Cc: 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 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:23:12 -0000 On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:04, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. > > In particular, users who just want to keep their ports tree up to date > and don't want to do anything unusual (keeping a complete repository, > checking out old versions of the ports tree, getting themselves rooted > via a man-in-the-middle attack on cvsup, etc.) will probably find that > portsnap is a very useful tool. > > There are several changes between the version in the ports tree and > the version I committed to HEAD, but the only one which most users should > notice is that the default location of portsnap's compressed snapshot has > moved from /usr/local/portsnap to /var/db/portsnap . > > Please test. The more people I see testing portsnap (I can see this via > the log files on the portsnap mirrors), the sooner it will get MFCed to > RELENG_6 and RELENG_5. :-) > > Colin Percival Hello, I was wondering if it's not a good idea for the man page to be more specific about the "random time" that "portsnap cron" sleeps? Or unless of course you had something in mind when you wrote it that way in the man page. Anyway, thanks for the great utility, it saves me a lot of time and bandwidth! :) --niki