From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 02:52:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB24016A422 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:52:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D54943D45 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:52:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.233]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ITU00J3T2O3F2B0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:52:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ITU00CA22O2LXB0@pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:52:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ITU00JFJ2O2V730@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:52:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:52:44 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> To: Chris Message-id: <43DC2DFC.5090301@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap 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: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:52:52 -0000 Chris wrote: > I > contacted the dev and he confirmed the ports version is old so I guess the > ports maintainer needs to update it until that is done I dont reccomend it > for 5.3 and older. *cough* Yes, the maintainer of the sysutils/portsnap port should update it. The maintainer of the misc/bsdiff port should update that one, too. *cough* For now, people using the portsnap port can get the same performance as the version in the base system provides by passing the undocumented "-x" option to portsnap. Colin Percival