Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Derek Buttineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tried using portsnap? It's a binary snapshot of the ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for. I don't su

Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:27:05 -0400 "Joachim Rosenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser > extent, /usr/src) goes something like this: > > 1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once) > > 2. use csup to update to HEA

Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Derek Buttineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried using portsnap? It's a binary snapshot of the ports tree: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for. I don't suppose there is something

Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Downey
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Joachim Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser extent, /usr/src) > goes something like this: > > 1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once) > > 2. use csup to update to HEAD > >

Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:27:05 -0400 "Joachim Rosenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, something like rsync would be *way* faster for this task. Take a look at portsnap. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://ww

Re: rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Derek Buttineau
On 2008-May-13, at 1:27 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser extent, /usr/ src) goes something like this: 1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once) 2. use csup to update to HEAD 3. build The problem is step 2.

rsync'able ports tree instead of csup?

2008-05-13 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
My usual workflow with the ports tree (and to a lesser extent, /usr/src) goes something like this: 1. download ports/src tree from cdrom/ftp site (usually done once) 2. use csup to update to HEAD 3. build The problem is step 2. It takes a very long time for csup to apply the latest