/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

[Colin Percival]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> Will portsnap improvement on to not delete any unoffical ports? I have 
> about 15 unoffical ports here in local machine and they are living in 
> /usr/ports for other tools' sake like portupgrade/pkgdb. I have never
> use  it, but I read in the bottom of http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ .

Portsnap will not remove any ports which it doesn't know about.  Portsnap
will only remove local modifications when they are in a port or infrastructure
file (e.g., Mk/*) which portsnap is updating to a newer version.

Colin Percival