portsnap

[Joshua Isom]

On 4/6/2013 5:01 PM, ajtiM wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org Opera
> update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update shows:
>
> portsnap fetch update
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
> No updates needed.
> Ports tree is already up to date.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Mitja

The key word is "snapshot" for portsnap.  If you're updating every 
couple hours, you'll want svn instead.  A snapshot is just a state in 
time, periodic but not continuous.  I don't know off hand how often the 
portsnap snapshot is updated.