/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

Kirill Ponomarew krion at voodoo.oberon.net
Sun Aug 7 12:53:50 GMT 2005


On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:22:48PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > Will portsnap improvement on to not delete any unoffical ports? I have 
> > about 15 unoffical ports here in local machine and they are living in 
> > /usr/ports for other tools' sake like portupgrade/pkgdb. I have never
> > use  it, but I read in the bottom of http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ .
> 
> Portsnap will not remove any ports which it doesn't know about.  Portsnap
> will only remove local modifications when they are in a port or infrastructure
> file (e.g., Mk/*) which portsnap is updating to a newer version.

Is portsnap also immune to Makefile.inc[local] and doesn't delete
them during update ?

-Kirill


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