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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: Recent security announcement and csup/cvsup?
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According to Gary Palmer on Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:04:21PM -0500:
> In other words: while signed updates via freebsd-update and portsnap
> are great for a good chunk of users, they don't address everyones needs.

Hopefully, with the move toward kngng, there will be less need of portsnap (and /usr/ports for that matter).

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