Portsnap is now in the base system

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Mon Jan 16 12:13:17 PST 2006


On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:07:32 -0600, Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:

> Jos Backus wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Ari Suutari wrote:
>>
>>>> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:04, Colin Percival wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> About 12 hours ago I committed portsnap to HEAD.  From the commit  
>>>>> log:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Add portsnap to the base system.  This is a secure, easy to use,
>>>>>  fast, lightweight, and generally good way for users to keep their
>>>>>  ports trees up to date.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> Is there an utility (cvsup-replacement) like this for base system  
>>> sources ?
>>>
>>
>> See csup: http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html. But it's not ready yet.
>
> Why would one want to replace cvsup? It works great!

You won't be asking that kind of question if you read there in the second  
paragraph. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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