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Date:      Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:51:22 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?
Message-ID:  <20110615085122.1d4ae0be@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110615003434.GE5630@external.screwed.box>
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:34:34 +0400
Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> wrote:

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> You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
> 2011/06/14 17:17:39 -0700 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> => To Peter
> Vereshagin :
> CS> > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetched
> CS> > previously?
> CS> As far as I can tell, you can't.
> 
> But on every 'portsnap fetch' it tells it downloads a new stuff and
> doesn't tell it deletes the old?
> - From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file it
> had ever downloaded: they all have different times.

It doesn't, it's a snapshot. The timestamps just reflect the last time
each particular object was updated.



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