Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > > There are a couple more points against portsnap: > > - it lags behind by a few hours. > > This is true (well, 1-2 hours). However, the reason for this > is that portsnap builds ports INDEX files, and since portsnap > is

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Andrew P. wrote: > There are a couple more points against portsnap: > - it lags behind by a few hours. This is true (well, 1-2 hours). However, the reason for this is that portsnap builds ports INDEX files, and since portsnap is usually more up-to-date than the INDEX files fetched by "make fetchi

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:55 am, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Szia Andrew, > > Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:47:32 PM, you wrote: > > There are a couple more points against portsnap: > > - it lags behind by a few hours. > > Actually, even cvsup is behind by a few hours, if you are not syncing > aga

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/9/05, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: > >>If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do > >>it. > > > > Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:13, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: > > If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do > > it. > > Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session with 10 > times the chang

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Percival
Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: >>If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do >>it. > > Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session with 10 > times the changes? Yes. Each time you run CVSup, it