Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:09:41 -0600 From: Barry McCormick <barry@pdc4u.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Michael Goodell <michael@pdc4u.com> Subject: difference between cvsup and portsnap Message-ID: <1243616981.26778.6.camel@bmac-desktop>
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Here at my work we use FreeBSD in production. We have the following debate and wish to know better the differences between cvsup(csup) and portsnap. One of my co-workers think that portsnap should NOT be used and only gets the latest and greatest port collection, no matter what version of FreeBSD is on the server. For example, if you are still running a 5.4 stable box in production and use any of the portsnap, portupgrade, etc utilities, you would pull the current version ports and NOT from teh directory of the 5.4 ports. I.E, risk breaking the production box. So you should not use portsnap ever except for dev boxes. I have always used portsnap to set up a new machine. I have never had it pull a wrong port that I knew of. I think it has to pay attention to the version of the ports it is pulling. which is right? This is a major issue with our production servers. Thanks
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