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

[Xin LI]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:33:36AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:22:48 -0500, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Good, thanks!

Just a note - be careful when you are using portsnap for the first time,
portsnap command "extract" will remove anything pre-exist, but as Colin
said, portsnap "update" will never remove files that it is not known before.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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