portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:23:55 +0100, frzburn <frzburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
[cut some text]
> 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?
>
> In fact, I'm just looking at the most up-to-date/approved/correct
> technique/tool to synchronize my source for ``rebuilding world'' with the
> latest sources from FreeBSD-6-STABLE.

Read this. It tells you why portsnap is invented. And why cvsup/csup is  
still better for other things then ports.
http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/

Ronald.
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  Ronald Klop
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