/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Sun Aug 7 18:27:20 GMT 2005


Colin Percival wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>I think that portsnap is a very good feature and I'm ready to tout it
>>for the 6.0 release.  The technical problems, such as they are, are
>>pretty insignificant and are just about solved.
> 
> 
> Umm... *shuffles feet*... I wasn't planning on having portsnap in the
> base system for FreeBSD 6.0.  I'd rather give it a couple of months to
> settle in and MFC it before FreeBSD 5.5 and FreeBSD 6.1.  People can
> always install it from the ports tree until then.
> 
> Unless you really want an insta-MFC in the middle of a release freeze,
> of course...
> 
> Colin Percival

Ah, sorry, I'm just too eager I guess =-)

Scott


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