Cvsup verses Portsnap

[David Stanford]

Yea, Colin's the man.

http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ highlights all the beneifts.

-David

On 5/13/06, wc_fbsd at xxiii.com <wc_fbsd at xxiii.com> wrote:
>
> At 01:35 PM 5/13/2006, Tom Moore wrote:
> >Which program is best for retrieving and keeping the ports tree up
> >to date? What are some pros and cons of each approach? Is one method
> >better than the other?
>
> I just discovered portsnap a couple months ago after loading a couple
> new machines with 6.0.  It is AWESOME (thanks, Colin! (the guy that
> developed it)).
>
> Do not even screw with cvsup for your ports.  portsnap is faster,
> easier, and (I'm told) even lower bandwith and server
> overhead.  About the only downside, is it has a directory in /var/db
> that was about 50MB with a bunch of little files last I looked, and I
> suspect it grows with time.  But what's disk space these days?
>
>    -Wayne
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