Adding portsnap to the base system

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Sun Aug 7 17:21:53 GMT 2005


Hi,

[...]
> CVSup in checkout mode, sort of.  Portsnap works using a compressed
> snapshot of the ports tree, which is then used to update /usr/ports,
> and also provides INDEX files; but the job it replaces is basically
> that of cvsup in checkout mode.

Sorry my ignorance but what's about the server side?  Does portsnap
use an existent ftp|www|cvsupd infrastructure or we need to build a
new one?

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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