Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:08:09 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Daniel Bye <danielby@slightlystrange.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade Message-ID: <C56FFBB9.6C4B%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20081218171203.GG5150@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, "Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: >> >> So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, >> upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right? > > Yes. As RW has already noted, extract will replace the entire ports tree > with the pristine version in portsnap's archive. so if one plans to do portsnap fetch; portsnap extract after installing freebsd from a release CD on a new machine, there's no point in installing the ports collection from the CD using sysinstall?
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