Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:17:27 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Colin Percival" <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap Message-ID: <op.su4gzdps9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:55:00 -0500, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Colin Percival wrote: >>> I'm going to be bringing portsnap into the base system very soon >> >> Pardon my ignorance, but where can I find the discussion where this was >> agreed? I assume in the archives on -arch somewhere, with some input >> from >> portmgr? > > Portsnap itself hasn't been explicitly discussed on freebsd-arch, but it > was mentioned (along with FreeBSD Update) as a reason for adding bsdiff > to the base system when that was discussed. Given the enthusiastic > response > I've received to portsnap, from members of portmgr, dozens of > committers, and > innumerable users, I didn't think it was necessary to raise the question > here. > In the past six months I've stated on numerous occasions my intention to > add > portsnap into the base system, and I don't think I've ever found anyone > who > did not agree with this. > > But for formality: Does anyone have an objection to having the base > system > enlarged by about 40kB by adding a program for updating the ports tree > which > is faster, uses less bandwidth, is more secure, and is easier to use > than cvsup, > while also having the side benefit of distributing pre-built INDEX files? Will portsnap improvement on to not delete any unoffical ports? I have about 15 unoffical ports here in local machine and they are living in /usr/ports for other tools' sake like portupgrade/pkgdb. I have never use it, but I read in the bottom of http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ . Cheers, Mezz > Colin Percival -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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