Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:14:33 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gemeral questions (noobish) Message-ID: <20080803131433.56480f6b@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200808030557.00555.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200808021550.48302.marshc187@gmail.com> <200808030531.35062.gnemmi@gmail.com> <20080803084117.GA1862@bacardi.frase.id.au> <200808030557.00555.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:57:00 -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:41:19 you wrote: > > Well, yes. `portsnap cron update` if running from cron. My point > > was that you can do fetch and update in one operation :) > > Oh sure ! > > But check this out, this is interesting (at least for me): by using > the -I flag I only update the INDEX file and not the whole port tree. > > From man portsnap: > "-I For the update command, update INDEX files, but not the > rest of the ports tree." > > Now why would I want to do that? > Well .. bandwith basically.. since Im running "portsnap cron update" > via cron, on a daily basis, I don't want to hammer the repos for no > real reason ;) I don't think that makes a difference, the -I option prevents portsnap from updating the ports tree from the local compressed snapshot, but AFAIK you're still updating the snapshot from the server.home | help
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