cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

[Colin Percival]

Andrew P. wrote:
> There are a couple more points against portsnap:
> - it lags behind by a few hours.

This is true (well, 1-2 hours).  However, the reason for this
is that portsnap builds ports INDEX files, and since portsnap
is usually more up-to-date than the INDEX files fetched by
"make fetchindex", the lag time is probably less of a problem
than one might imagine at first.

That said, the build times should be improving somewhat as I
move portsnap builds to some new hardware in the near future.

> - setting up a mirror is still undocumented

I'm working on it; but for most users, a caching HTTP proxy
will be far better than an actual portsnap mirror.

Colin Percival