csup vs portsnap was: fresh install of kde4 fails -> japanese/kiten

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

[ RW wrote on Sat  1.Sep'12 at  0:49:54 +0100 ]

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:27:14 -0700
> Jim Pazarena wrote:
> 
> 
> > Which is the recommended way to stay PORT current? portsnap or csup?
> > I will switch to portsnap, but it is pretty slow compared to csup.
> 
> In normal use portsnap should be much faster than csup. 
> 
> The initial "portsnap extract" is much slower than a normal "update",
> and fetching the first compressed snapshot or updating a really ancient
> one is slower than a normal "fetch" - beyond that portsnap is very fast.

Agreed. After the first run of `portsnap fetch extract`, subsequent fetch and update using portsnap is certainly faster.