Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

[Sean Cavanaugh]

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From: "perikillo" <perikillo at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:25 PM
To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html
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>  I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have 
> to
> just run  portsnap fetch && portsnap update?
>
>  Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap?
>
>  This is normal? This would not broke my tree?
>
>   Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u
> know what happend, thanks!!!
>

I've never fully trusted portsnap. I do run portsnap fetch before every 
portupgrade but I always follow it up with CVSUP and I usually find some 
more files that get changed anyway.