FreeBSD Port: portsnap-0.9.5

[Colin Percival]

David Wassman wrote:
> First off, I do enjoy the portsnap utility. It is alot more efficient than 
> cvsup and more secure. With that said, I am curious if there is a way not to 
> download or extract certain branches of the port tree. I find it useless to 
> have arabic, german, or japanese ports as I don't speak these langauages and 
> normally delete the branches from the port tree. I can use the refuse file to 
> avoid them in cvsup but I am unaware if there is a way to do this with 
> portsnap. 

The latest version of Portsnap in the FreeBSD base system (in FreeBSD 6.0) has
support for refusing parts of the ports tree.  I will be updating the version
of portsnap in the ports tree shortly after FreeBSD 6.0 is released -- I want
to allow some of the new code to get more testing first.

Colin Percival