From the site :
Portsnap is a system for securely downloading and updating a compressed snapshot of the FreeBSD ports tree, and using this compressed snapshot to extract or update a (uncompressed) copy of the ports tree.
Historically, most people have used CVSup to keep their ports tree up to date, but CVSup has a number of limitations:
Rohan.On 1/14/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:47:24AM +0530, Rohan Dhruva wrote:
>Hi,
>
>How about starting a system akin to portsnap service in FreeBSD ? It is
>almost like what snowman is doing, but how about providing a wrapper
>around that, and making it "semi-official" ? Anyone interested ? ;)
Any pointers to what it is? I'm not too familiar with *BSD stuff.
I might be interested in hacking something together...
/M
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