Portsnap is now in the base system

[Thierry Herbelot]

Le Tuesday 9 August 2005 19:19, Colin Percival a écrit :
> >
> > I've had a look at the man page(s), and at the web page on
> > http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ I'm still missing one piece of
> > information : how are the ports snapshots initially built ?
>
> Magic. :-)

I *knew* it.
>
> Seriously, I checkout a copy of the ports tree, run `make describes` three
> times (for 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x), package up the resulting files, build some
> patches, and then throw everything onto my web server.  From there it gets
> mirrored by another server (and more mirrors will follow).
>
> Once I've ironed out all the bugs in the building and mirroring, I'll make
> that code available via the projects repository.

fine
>
> > One misfeature of cvs is the possibility to fetch incomplete updates to
> > the repository (no atomic commits in cvs, and this must be carried over
> > to cvsup). Do "your" snapshots behave better in this domain ?
>
> No.  I take a snapshot of the files on cvsup-master (via cvsup over an ssh
> tunnel -- being a committer hath its privileges :-) ), and that's what I
> package up, with the one exception that if the INDEX build is broken then
> users will get the most recent unbroken INDEX instead.
>
> > As one last question : I assume the same process of building "coherent"
> > snapshots could be also applied to the core cvs repository of the full
> > FreeBSD project, and a cvs-snap utility could be imagined ?
>
> This process doesn't build coherent snapshots; and the same process
> wouldn't work very well for anything other than ports due to a number of
> reasons concerning the structure of the ports tree and the lack of
> structure of the non-ports trees.

too bad : as you demonstrated, the project makes good use of "assured" methods 
of disseminating new software - these are two very important stepping stones 
and it's just a pity not to have the same kind of tool for the core of the OS 
= the source (and it's too late for a SoC project ...)

>
> Colin Percival

	TfH