Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:40:32 -0500 From: "Peggy Wilkins" <enlil65@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"? Message-ID: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com>
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I just recently started using portsnap in lieu of cvsup on my ports tree for FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. I thought it was supposed to be more efficient than cvsup, but I'm finding it to be worse. I followed the directions from the Handbook that say to run "portsnap fetch update" to update the ports tree (assuming it's already been set up previously, which I did a couple weeks ago)... but when the fetch finished, it told me that I needed to "run extract before update". Unfortunately, extract takes forever to run, so this is much worse than running cvsup. Am I doing something wrong? I thought I was following the directions in the Handbook. I ran extract the first time I did it, before running update, why do I need to run it again? -- Peggy Wilkins enlil65@gmail.com
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