Portsnap is a system for securely updating the ports tree by
distributing signed compressed snapshots. This is the client
half of that system; it downloads compressed snapshots into
/usr/local/portsnap ("portsnap fetch") and uses those to extract
a ports tree into /usr/ports ("portsnap extract") or update an
existing tree ("portsnap update").
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.
- Colin Percival
cperciva@daemonology.net
ports-mgmt/portsnap: Fix MAINTAINER
- Fix OSVERSION number. During the initial copy of the port it was
unidentified like from which exact OSVERSION portsnap will be removed
as the src changes were still under review. After the exact removal
from the tree we can conclude that eeffective from 1400087 there will
be no more portsnap in the base.
ports-mgmt/portsnap: Resurrect
portsnap will be removed from the base from 14.0-RELEASE onwards. To
facilitate usage of portsnap from 14.0-RELEASE onwards extract portsnap
from base and create seperate port.
Portsnap is a system for securely updating the ports tree by
distributing signed compressed snapshots. This is the client
half of that system; it downloads compressed snapshots into
/usr/local/portsnap ("portsnap fetch") and uses those to extract
a ports tree into /usr/ports ("portsnap extract") or update an
existing tree ("portsnap update").
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.
Approved by: portmgr
