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Date:      Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:14:28 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?
Message-ID:  <45EA63C4.8010703@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7358E9CA-7FAA-461D-B0F0-16A3DEBEA59C@ece.cmu.edu>
References:  <2942dae0703031923q2887c59dh85f103bff424e7b7@mail.gmail.com> <7358E9CA-7FAA-461D-B0F0-16A3DEBEA59C@ece.cmu.edu>

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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> It's a little out of date; instead of cvsup, you use csup which is in 
> the base system (and only supports updating the base system, hence 
> portsnap).

That last bit is not actually correct. csup will update anything cvsup 
can in checkout mode, so you can check out a src tree, a ports tree, a 
doc tree, etc. with csup. The only thing you can't do is mirror a 
repository in cvs mode. So far only cvsup can do that.

hth,

Doug

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