Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

[Mike Clarke]

On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote:

> to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree.  You only need
> to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of
> /usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do
> (but keep anything under /usr/ports/distfiles and maybe
> /usr/ports/packages).  Something like:
> 
>    cd /usr
>    mv ports ports.old
>    mkdir ports
>    mv ports.old/distfiles ports/distfiles
>    mv ports.old/packages ports/packages
>    portsnap fetch extract
> 
> Although this may be complicated if any of /usr/ports,
> /usr/ports/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition
> or ZFS.

I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately 
prior to running portsnap.

-- 
Mike Clarke