Ports upgrade ....

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Apr 19 20:43:44 UTC 2016


Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee at gmail.com> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert writes:
>
>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> writes:
>>
>>> It brought down almost 14K updates for 3-ish weeks .... I know the
>>> ports effort is a feverish hive of productivity, but that sounded a
>>> bit high :-) .... Is that number anomalous, maybe coincident w/ new
>>> quarter, something else ? More question than problem, but curious. TIA
>>> & have a good one.
>>
>> If you're switching from one quarterly branch to the next, then sure,
>> you've pretty much got three months worth of updates at once.
>
> I thought portsnap couldn't fetch from the quarterly branches? Or did my
> caffeine-starved brain just misread something? :P

Or I could just be wrong.

I took a quick look at the documentation and the code and I'm not sure.


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