Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:16:18 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" <valentin.bud@gmail.com> To: "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: Daniel Bye <danielby@slightlystrange.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade Message-ID: <139b44430812181016pf479572ne398fc89b57df62d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C56FFBB9.6C4B%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <20081218171203.GG5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <C56FFBB9.6C4B%fsb@thefsb.org>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, "Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> > >> So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, > >> upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right? > > > > Yes. As RW has already noted, extract will replace the entire ports tree > > with the pristine version in portsnap's archive. > > so if one plans to do portsnap fetch; portsnap extract after installing > freebsd from a release CD on a new machine, there's no point in installing > the ports collection from the CD using sysinstall? As far as i see things no it makes no sense to install the ports tree from CD. I have never installed ports from CD because all the computers running freebsd have an internet connection and the first thing i do is to fetch the updated ports tree. a great day, v > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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