Portsnap

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 28 18:52:52 PST 2006


Chris wrote:
> I
> contacted the dev and he confirmed the ports version is old so I guess the
> ports maintainer needs to update it until that is done I dont reccomend it
> for 5.3 and older.

*cough*

Yes, the maintainer of the sysutils/portsnap port should update it.  The
maintainer of the misc/bsdiff port should update that one, too.

*cough*

For now, people using the portsnap port can get the same performance as
the version in the base system provides by passing the undocumented "-x"
option to portsnap.

Colin Percival


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