Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:17:46 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: cperciva@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding portsnap to the base system Message-ID: <20050807.101746.68985623.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <42F62C5F.6000609@freebsd.org> References: <42F62C5F.6000609@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:
: I've been told by a committer that there hasn't been enough
: discussion about the merits of adding portsnap to the base
: system.
:
: The basic summary, for anyone who didn't read yesterday's
: thread, is that portsnap is a secure, easy to use, fast,
: low-bandwidth, and lightweight way to keep the ports tree
: up to date. It is currently used by about 2000 systems each
: week (based on my server logs; and increasing at a rate of
: about 50% per month). The feedback I've had from users has
: been universally glowing, aside from the complaints that it
: really should be in the base system already.
:
: Portsnap is not a complete replacement for CVSup -- it only
: handles ports, and it only handles the tree, not the repo --
: but it is very good at doing the job it is designed for.
:
: Discuss.
I'm confused. Earlier in this thread it looked like someone said it
distributed binaries. Now this seems to indicate it is just cvsup in
checkout mode. Which is it? And when posting questions like this, it
is usually good to include pointers to documentation (although the
diff below does contain the man pages).
: Unless I hear any complaints, I'm going to commit the following
: patch tomorrow:
: http://www.daemonology.net/tmp/portsnap-base.diff
Is there some reason you've reinvated fetch as well? What does
phttpget do that fetch(1) or fetch(3) doesn't? The only thing that
looks like it might is pipelining mode, which would be better in the
base fetch program, imho.
neither make_index nor phttpget have man pages.
What does this buy you over cvsup/cvsupd?
Warner
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