Idea about the ports tree included in the release

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Sat Nov 24 05:37:04 PST 2007


* Alex Dupre (ale at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed
> > up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more
> > useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file
> > with the tarball, and install it into some standard location?
> And why not the portsnap database instead? It seems the
> default/recommended method today.
I would think of both. I personally prefer c[v]sup because it doesn't
delete custom patches, which I have a dozen.

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