port/source snap the ports/kernel source
Huajian.Luo
Huajian.Luo at Sun.COM
Thu Nov 24 03:04:46 GMT 2005
Hi there,
After I upgrade my box to 6.0, I found that portsnap is currently
in the base system. I'm curious that why we need invent a tool that
just fetch the ports.tar.gz from mirror, while can not fetch the
kernel source, while I can make it by wget the ports.tar.gz even behind
a firewall and extract it to the /usr/ports and update all softwares
by portupgrade.
What I wonder is that why there is no sourcesnap alike tools or why
there is no daily snapshots like src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz that we can
use portsnap/wget to snap it to local disk. and the CVSup's drawbacks
have drew many users away from it.
What do you think of this?
Thanks,
--Huajian.
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