On 7-Mar-2010, at 08:31, Royce Williams wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:40 PM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> On 06-Mar-10 05:07, RW wrote: >>> portversion get its version information from the index file. You need >>> to do a "make fetchindex" in the ports directory (or "make index" if you >>> have a lot of time on your hands). >> >> Thanks for that, I am planning on upgrading that machine soon anyway, so >> best to get all this ports stuff squared away first. > > Semi-OT, but portsnap(8) makes fetching the ports indexes no longer > necessary. portsnap is also orders of magnitude faster than > cvsup/csup, as it only sends diffs from the previously downloaded > snap, and those diffs are precalculated. It was written by Colin > Percival, the FreeBSD Security Officer, and so it is also quite > reliable. It's been part of the base OS since 6.2 or so. If you're > not using it, I highly recommend it.
I'd never heard of it, but am reading the man page now. Sounds great! -- Sarah, age 18, says "man, once you go crayola you can't go back."
