With recent freebsd 6.2 stable installation I like to try portsnap. Since it’s already in base, no need to install this program 🙂

Just trying it 🙂

alamster# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching snapshot metadata… done.
Fetching snapshot generated at Sun Jul 22 00:35:13 UTC 2007:
488520ca868e6c935f35667a1c969541f0996cb51776fc100% of   48 MB   66 kBps 00m00s
Extracting snapshot… done.
Verifying snapshot integrity… done.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching snapshot metadata… done.
Updating from Sun Jul 22 00:35:13 UTC 2007 to Sun Jul 22 11:58:18 UTC 2007.
Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done.
Applying metadata patches… done.
Fetching 0 metadata files… done.
Fetching 43 patches…..10….20….30….40. done.
Applying patches… done.
Fetching 0 new ports or files… done.

alamster# portsnap extract
……………………..
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/usr/ports/audio/cplay/
/usr/ports/audio/cpp-xmms2/
/usr/ports/audio/crip/
/usr/ports/audio/csound-manual/
/usr/ports/audio/csound/
/usr/ports/audio/cue2toc/
/usr/ports/audio/cuetools/
/usr/ports/audio/cymbaline/
/usr/ports/audio/cynthiune/
/usr/ports/audio/daapd/
/usr/ports/audio/daaplib/
/usr/ports/audio/dagrab/
/usr/ports/audio/dap/
/usr/ports/audio/darkice/
/usr/ports/audio/dekagen/
………………………
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/usr/ports/x11/yalias/
/usr/ports/x11/yelp/
/usr/ports/x11/zenity/
Building new INDEX files… done.

alamster# pkg_info
pkg_info: no packages installed

great, I don’t have to install cvsup for updating ports 🙂

but hey, csup already in base too. Only need ports-supfile and stable-supfile.

Let portsnap work for ports and csup work for source file.

Very handy end neat tools

thanks FreeBSD 🙂