portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

[Doug Barton]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> It's a little out of date; instead of cvsup, you use csup which is in 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).

That last bit is not actually correct. csup will update anything cvsup 
can in checkout mode, so you can check out a src tree, a ports tree, a 
doc tree, etc. with csup. The only thing you can't do is mirror a 
repository in cvs mode. So far only cvsup can do that.

hth,

Doug

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