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| author | Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-16 09:24:26 +0800 |
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| committer | Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-16 09:24:26 +0800 |
| commit | 3d918f98ba51b39a4e7d12cb79659a842d56b9e2 (patch) | |
| tree | d4ceb91c57f40796775870d396be46b0cd30cf57 /ports-mgmt | |
| parent | 104db4b5c6b2351a640f7d889d7559432e55598b (diff) | |
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In light of recent tests, update the description of portsnap to note
that it is far more bandwidth-efficient than CVSup in cases where the
ports tree is being updated every few days.
Approved by: pav
Diffstat (limited to 'ports-mgmt')
| -rw-r--r-- | ports-mgmt/portsnap/pkg-descr | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ports-mgmt/portsnap/pkg-descr b/ports-mgmt/portsnap/pkg-descr index 8b36901d06e4..a33c0a7dda3a 100644 --- a/ports-mgmt/portsnap/pkg-descr +++ b/ports-mgmt/portsnap/pkg-descr @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ half of that system; it downloads compressed snapshots into a ports tree into /usr/ports ("portsnap extract") or update an existing tree ("portsnap update"). -Portsnap uses bandwidth roughly comparable to CVSup, but operates -entirely over HTTP. +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. WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ |