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From: n j <nino80@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:51:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:03 AM, David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/19/14, Alnis Morics <alnis.morics@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 05/19/2014 23:28, David Noel wrote:
> >> I also think it would be an appropriate time to discuss retiring
> >> portsnap.
> > Subversion checkouts and updates take much more time than Porstnap.
>
> My experience has been that both portsnap and svn update typically
> take under a minute to complete.
>
> Regardless, don't most people run this in the background with portsnap
> cron?
>

I don't. And I don't regularly update the ports tree.

When you regularly update ports tree, the diffs svn update needs to pull
are relatively small. When you update, say, once a month, portsnap in my
experience gets the job done a lot quicker.

My $.02,
-- 
Nino