Speedup ports install

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Wed Oct 28 07:31:35 UTC 2015


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:22:34AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Baptiste Daroussin, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> IIRC portmaster only creates packages as backup of the installed
> version just in case the new package will fail it can reinstall the
> old one in that case, yes a tgz would be way faster, you can even
> chose plain tar to even more reduce the over head.

https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster/issues/38

:)


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