On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote: > to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree. You only need > to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of > /usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do > (but keep anything under /usr/ports/distfiles and maybe > /usr/ports/packages). Something like: > > cd /usr > mv ports ports.old > mkdir ports > mv ports.old/distfiles ports/distfiles > mv ports.old/packages ports/packages > portsnap fetch extract > > Although this may be complicated if any of /usr/ports, > /usr/ports/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition > or ZFS.
I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
