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| author | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-16 01:24:26 +0000 |
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| committer | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-16 01:24:26 +0000 |
| commit | b18ab42558d683bdad131d1d80a97a9b84a10e20 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fa28df7ee74a07cbc2c2060cd2d68a79b3f6aae /sysutils | |
| parent | 05a95562edb41f3db9a5c215fc5314dc9811d9da (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-ports-b18ab42558d683bdad131d1d80a97a9b84a10e20.zip FreeBSD-ports-b18ab42558d683bdad131d1d80a97a9b84a10e20.tar.gz | |
In light of recent tests, update the description of portsnap to note
that it is far more bandwidth-efficient than CVSup in cases where the
ports tree is being updated every few days.
Approved by: pav
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr b/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr index 8b36901..a33c0a7 100644 --- a/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ half of that system; it downloads compressed snapshots into a ports tree into /usr/ports ("portsnap extract") or update an existing tree ("portsnap update"). -Portsnap uses bandwidth roughly comparable to CVSup, but operates -entirely over HTTP. +In addition to operating entirely over HTTP, portsnap can use under +a tenth of the bandwidth required by CVSup if a copy of the ports +tree is being updated every few days. WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ |
