portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

Michael W. Belz mbelz at sky-river.com
Sun Mar 4 04:37:13 UTC 2007


Stick with what has been posted, documented and tried and tested more 
importantly your having issues finding solid docs to support your 
task...using cvsup you have handbook docs and freebsd diary to use don't 
reinvent the wheel
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 8:30 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2007, at 22:23 , frzburn wrote:
>
>> So here come my questions:
>> Is portsnap syncing the sources correctly for rebuilding world, or  
>> must I
>> use cvsup?
>> If so, of what use is portsnap if I must use cvsup for  synchronizing 
>> my
>> source?
>
> It's a little out of date; instead of cvsup, you use csup which is in  
> the base system (and only supports updating the base system, hence  
> portsnap).
>
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