Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:32:50 +0300 From: Alnis Morics <alnis.morics@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update Message-ID: <537B0522.8090109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALf6cgZP6Ps==-vG1P3gbb5w9BovH4jisfSo-xPqRCp1jXRpWA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHAXwYBEtqxpDZJBhRF1=QDi6v97qQvJeYUbDE0kYqEsMbvf_w@mail.gmail.com> <537A704D.6010209@gmail.com> <CAHAXwYCjAtU3Wh-Y=juxaYQCU=om=bqonaRiq12VXs7nGT_fwA@mail.gmail.com> <CALf6cgZP6Ps==-vG1P3gbb5w9BovH4jisfSo-xPqRCp1jXRpWA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/20/2014 09:51, n j wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:03 AM, David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 5/19/14, Alnis Morics <alnis.morics@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 05/19/2014 23:28, David Noel wrote: >>>> I also think it would be an appropriate time to discuss retiring >>>> portsnap. >>> Subversion checkouts and updates take much more time than Porstnap. >> My experience has been that both portsnap and svn update typically >> take under a minute to complete. >> >> Regardless, don't most people run this in the background with portsnap >> cron? >> > I don't. And I don't regularly update the ports tree. > > When you regularly update ports tree, the diffs svn update needs to pull > are relatively small. When you update, say, once a month, portsnap in my > experience gets the job done a lot quicker. > > My $.02, Exactly. And "svn checkout" is incomparably slower than "portsnap fetch extract". -Alnis
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