Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 19:32:08 -0400 From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"? Message-ID: <20060504233208.GB811@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com> References: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:40:32PM -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: > 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? The first time you run portsnap: # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract Subsequent usage: # portsnap fetch update Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? Cheers, Jason
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