portsnap

ajtiM lumiwa at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 10:57:50 UTC 2013


On Saturday, April 06, 2013 20:37:45 Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 4/6/2013 5:01 PM, ajtiM wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org
> > Opera update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update
> > shows:
> > 
> > portsnap fetch update
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
> > No updates needed.
> > Ports tree is already up to date.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance...
> > 
> > Mitja
> 
> The key word is "snapshot" for portsnap.  If you're updating every
> couple hours, you'll want svn instead.  A snapshot is just a state in
> time, periodic but not continuous.  I don't know off hand how often the
> portsnap snapshot is updated.
> _______________________________________________

Thank you for the answer but I never waited more than eight(8) hours for 
update exceot if it was something wrong and I am user more than three (3) 
years.

Mitja
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