Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:46:22 -0400 From: Derek Buttineau <derek@csolve.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup? Message-ID: <E976146B-C6E3-4D93-BEE6-887FD60ED65F@csolve.net> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70805131027i3f7286d0jadacbab8f862b101@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70805131027i3f7286d0jadacbab8f862b101@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2008-May-13, at 1:27 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: > My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser extent, /usr/ > src) > goes something like this: > > 1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once) > > 2. use csup to update to HEAD > > 3. build > > The problem is step 2. It takes a very long time for csup to apply the > latest changes from the cvsup servers to the tree, even if my previous > csup session was only the previous day. Have you tried using portsnap? It's a binary snapshot of the ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html Derek
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