What replaces csup?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Sep 19 22:18:08 UTC 2012


On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Walter Hurry wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:26:45 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> For ports, it's probably worth saving the distfile directory along with
>> local diffs.  Move it back into place after the svn checkout of the
>> ports tree.
>
> PMFJI. Newbie here: What's wrong with using SVN for src, and portsnap for
> ports?

That's another way.  If there are any local changes to the ports tree, 
portsnap will overwrite them.  I also find portsnap slower than either 
csup or svn.


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