portsnap base thought

From: Peter van Dijk (peter_at_dataloss.nl)
Date: 08/27/05

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    Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:56:40 +0200
To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org

    Hi,

    portsnap requires that the /usr/ports on a machine was created with
    portsnap extract, before it will allow you to portsnap update.

    Suggestion: make the portstree as delivered in 6.0-RELEASE (on the CD
    etc.) compatible with portsnap extract, so people can use portsnap
    from a base CD install without having to fetch the portstree through
    portsnap first. I do realise this might bloat the CD image by about
    50 megabytes (because of /var/db/portsnap) but I think it's worth it.

    Cheers, Peter 

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