From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 20 04:58:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291CC106566B for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp7.server.rpi.edu (smtp7.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9951E8FC15 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp7.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2K3vYgK022469; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:36 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <8250ac3f0903191139m7c895ff9gde584ad16e3923f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <8250ac3f0903191139m7c895ff9gde584ad16e3923f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:33 -0400 To: Kalle =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F8ller?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 20.00] 22490(-25) X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.227 Cc: Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:58:50 -0000 At 7:39 PM +0100 3/19/09, Kalle M=F8ller wrote: >Hi > >I've been digging around, but I can't find a clear answer, which of those >two is the "correct" to use. Hence I don't use one now, so if I'm going to >learn one, I would prefer it to be the right one. That's a reasonable question to ask. Unfortunately, the answer is "it depends on what you want"... For my use (as more of a developer), I go with csup or cvsup for most of my machines. But on the slower machines that I have, portsnap might be a better choice. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu