[HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

Michael Lednev liettneff at bk.ru
Sun Jan 6 01:13:12 PST 2008


Hello, Rudy.

On 6 января 2008 г., 5:43:54 you wrote:

>> Is there any way to compact /var/db/portsnap other than deleting it
>> and doing postsnap fetch?

R> I don't like portsnap -- granted I've never typed the portsnap
R> command in my 10 years of FreeBSD 
R> use.  I use cvsup!

Probably because portsnap is about 2 yo. The question is not "How to
update my ports tree", its "How to compact /var/db/portsnap". Thanks
for the answer anyway.

PS try csup. This is cvsup clone written in C. Comes with the base
system.

-- 
Best regards,
 Michael                          mailto:liettneff at bk.ru



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