portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Mar 4 04:29:27 UTC 2007


On Mar 3, 2007, at 22:23 , frzburn wrote:

> So here come my questions:
> Is portsnap syncing the sources correctly for rebuilding world, or  
> must I
> use cvsup?
> If so, of what use is portsnap if I must use cvsup for  
> synchronizing my
> source?

It's a little out of date; instead of cvsup, you use csup which is in  
the base system (and only supports updating the base system, hence  
portsnap).

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