On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:57:00 -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:41:19 you wrote: > > Well, yes. `portsnap cron update` if running from cron. My point > > was that you can do fetch and update in one operation :) > > Oh sure ! > > But check this out, this is interesting (at least for me): by using > the -I flag I only update the INDEX file and not the whole port tree. > > From man portsnap: > "-I For the update command, update INDEX files, but not the > rest of the ports tree." > > Now why would I want to do that? > Well .. bandwith basically.. since Im running "portsnap cron update" > via cron, on a daily basis, I don't want to hammer the repos for no > real reason ;) I don't think that makes a difference, the -I option prevents portsnap from updating the ports tree from the local compressed snapshot, but AFAIK you're still updating the snapshot from the server. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
