Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:31:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld@gmail.com> Cc: Derek Buttineau <derek@csolve.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup? Message-ID: <482A7947.1060503@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70805131339s34c60d79pe5934c66381ebc13@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70805131027i3f7286d0jadacbab8f862b101@mail.gmail.com> <E976146B-C6E3-4D93-BEE6-887FD60ED65F@csolve.net> <6e5cf6a70805131339s34c60d79pe5934c66381ebc13@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Derek Buttineau <derek@csolve.net> wrote: >> Have you tried using portsnap? It's a binary snapshot of the ports tree: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html > > Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > I don't suppose there is something analagous to portsnap for the > source tree? It doesn't matter all that much because I don't update > /usr/src all that open, so running csup(1) when a new version comes > out is not a terribly big pain. freebsd-update. Comes with the system, is by the same person who wrote portsnap. However, it defaults to doing binary updates of the installed system. You need to tweak the config file if all you want are the system sources. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkgqeU0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIynNwCfZ29ktMBFi5t872mRnxYuCOBu uG0AoIK7MAjMrv1nZSd1MYBeTcRn7BI6 =vUD0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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