Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:21:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: alex@schnarff.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using portsnap after sysinstall Message-ID: <20070412172111.GA48215@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070412122954.493cajcveoko88ko@mail.schnarff.com> References: <20070412122954.493cajcveoko88ko@mail.schnarff.com>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:29:54PM -0400, alex@schnarff.com wrote: > What I'd really like to be able to do is used portsnap, which seems=20 > like a great tool, but preserve all of the information about my=20 > existing packages. I have no idea if I can just wipe out my old=20 > /usr/ports and run "portsnap extract" (I've already run "portsnap=20 > fetch"), or if doing so would break my ports DB, dependencies, or=20 > something else I'm not familiar with. No, that is safe. No existing configuration is recorded inside /usr/ports. Kris --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGHmqGWry0BWjoQKURAmjGAKCbJVH445zL/ScQPmWXiqOR7R2zTACdE87A rg8IQP0mppqgwZU/9fiSbg0= =punY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--
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