Re: port/source snap the ports/kernel source

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:59:13AM +0800, Huajian.Luo wrote: > Hi there, > > After I upgrade my box to 6.0, I found that portsnap is currently > in the base system. I'm curious that why we need invent a tool that > just fetch the ports.tar.gz from mirror, while can not fetch the > kernel source,

port/source snap the ports/kernel source

2005-11-23 Thread Huajian.Luo
Hi there, After I upgrade my box to 6.0, I found that portsnap is currently in the base system. I'm curious that why we need invent a tool that just fetch the ports.tar.gz from mirror, while can not fetch the kernel source, while I can make it by wget the ports.tar.gz even behind a firewall and e