svn and/or portsnap

Helmut Schneider jumper99 at gmx.de
Sun Sep 9 13:22:40 UTC 2012


C. P. Ghost wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > Currently I'm updating ports and src twice a day so I will keep
> > using svn for both.
> 
> While you certainly can, isn't it a bit excessive to update so
> frequently?  Remember, it's not just fetching the sources and ports,
> you must also compile world and ports if you want to stay current. I
> highly doubt that you want to do this twice a day, even on a very
> fast machine.

I meant I fetch sources for src and ports twice a day. While ports
helps me to track most recent changes src indeed might not require an
update twice a day.



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