Recent security announcement and csup/cvsup?

Bas Smeelen b.smeelen at ose.nl
Tue Nov 20 11:51:00 UTC 2012


On 11/20/2012 12:45 PM, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
> Dear Ollivier and all,
>     I have problem with the portsnap: I maintain a private "repository" 
> under the /usr/ports: There is a /usr/ports/tmp where I store new ports to 
> be tested, and submitted. The portsnap is removing unrecognized local files.
>     With cvsup I don't have such a problem.
>     I have no information about pkgng, whether I can maintain private 
> repository with pkgng or not?

I guess the best in this case is to switch to subversion.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer


>
> Janos Mohacsi
> Head of HBONE+ project
> Network Engineer, Director Network and Multimedia
> NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
> Co-chair of Hungarian IPv6 Forum
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>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
>> According to Gary Palmer on Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:04:21PM -0500:
>>> In other words: while signed updates via freebsd-update and portsnap
>>> are great for a good chunk of users, they don't address everyones needs.
>>
>> Hopefully, with the move toward kngng, there will be less need of 
>> portsnap (and /usr/ports for that matter).
>>
>> -- 
>> Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto at keltia.net
>> In memoriam to Ondine, our 2nd child: http://ondine.keltia.net/ 



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