Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:47:32 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem) Message-ID: <cb5206420511100647h5fbc1946n88f3fac1e449e758@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43725078.6000303@freebsd.org> References: <CA513920FC73A14B964AB258D77EA8D60B559A@mx1.masongeneral.com> <200511091224.13143.kirk@strauser.com> <200511091044.04253.kstewart@owt.com> <200511091313.50741.kirk@strauser.com> <43725078.6000303@freebsd.org>
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On 11/9/05, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: > >>If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't = do > >>it. > > > > Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session with= 10 > > times the changes? > > Yes. Each time you run CVSup, it transmits a list of all the files in th= e > tree; if your ports tree is almost up-to-date already, then this "overhea= d" > cost is in fact the largest contributor to the bandwidth used. This prob= lem > does not occur with portsnap to any significant extent; updating once an = hour > uses less than 1% extra bandwidth compared to updating every day. > > > Anyway, I've fallen in love with portsnap. Is there any reason in the = world > > why a normal user (eg one that doesn't need to fetch a version of ports > > from a specific date or tag) shouldn't completely switch to portsnap to= day? > > The other common reason for being unable to use portsnap is if a user has= made > their own personal changes to a port (e.g., an added patch). Portsnap wi= ll > remove such changes the next time the port is updated, while cvs will att= empt > to merge the modifications. > > Colin Percival > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > There are a couple more points against portsnap: - it lags behind by a few hours. - setting up a mirror is still undocumented Both issues are purely technical, and hopefully will be dealt with soon.
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