On Fri, 29 May 2009, Barry McCormick wrote:
Here at my work we use FreeBSD in production. We have the following debate and wish to know better the differences between cvsup(csup) and portsnap. One of my co-workers think that portsnap should NOT be used and only gets the latest and greatest port collection, no matter what version of FreeBSD is on the server. For example, if you are still running a 5.4 stable box in production and use any of the portsnap, portupgrade, etc utilities, you would pull the current version ports and NOT from teh directory of the 5.4 ports. I.E, risk breaking the production box. So you should not use portsnap ever except for dev boxes.
The idea that there's a "5.4 ports" directory is mistaken. The ports tree isn't branched; note the lack of a "tag=" entry in the example ports-supfile. csup will let you retrieve from a certain date, but that's not normal usage for the ports tree.
So check your ports-supfile. It's probably already retrieving the latest version of ports, just like portsnap.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
