Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:59:13 +0800 From: "Huajian.Luo" <Huajian.Luo@Sun.COM> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: port/source snap the ports/kernel source Message-ID: <20051124025913.GM876@whatluo>
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Hi there, After I upgrade my box to 6.0, I found that portsnap is currently in the base system. I'm curious that why we need invent a tool that just fetch the ports.tar.gz from mirror, while can not fetch the kernel source, while I can make it by wget the ports.tar.gz even behind a firewall and extract it to the /usr/ports and update all softwares by portupgrade. What I wonder is that why there is no sourcesnap alike tools or why there is no daily snapshots like src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz that we can use portsnap/wget to snap it to local disk. and the CVSup's drawbacks have drew many users away from it. What do you think of this? Thanks, --Huajian.
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