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%red%Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree. *From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html *%blue% Installation On FreeBSD 6.0 and more recent versions, Portsnap is contained in the FreeBSD base system. On older versions of FreeBSD, it can be installed using the ports-mgmt/portsnap port. *%blue% Portsnap Configuration Portsnap's operation is controlled by the /etc/portsnap.conf configuration file. For most users, the default configuration file will suffice. *%blue% Running Portsnap for the First Time The first time portsnap(8) is run, it will need to download a compressed snapshot of the entire ports tree into /var/db/portsnap/ (or /usr/local/portsnap/ if Portsnap was installed from the Ports Collection). This is approximately a 41 MB download. portsnap fetch portsnap extract Note: In the default installation /usr/ports is not created. *%blue% Updating the Ports Tree After an initial compressed snapshot of the ports tree has been downloaded and extracted into /usr/ports/ portsnap fetch update *%blue%Some older versions of portsnap do not support this syntax; if it fails, try instead the following: portsnap fetch portsnap update Deleted lines 0-34:
*From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html *%blue% Installation On FreeBSD 6.0 and more recent versions, Portsnap is contained in the FreeBSD base system. On older versions of FreeBSD, it can be installed using the ports-mgmt/portsnap port. *%blue% Portsnap Configuration Portsnap's operation is controlled by the /etc/portsnap.conf configuration file. For most users, the default configuration file will suffice. *%blue% Running Portsnap for the First Time The first time portsnap(8) is run, it will need to download a compressed snapshot of the entire ports tree into /var/db/portsnap/ (or /usr/local/portsnap/ if Portsnap was installed from the Ports Collection). This is approximately a 41 MB download. portsnap fetch portsnap extract Note: In the default installation /usr/ports is not created. *%blue% Updating the Ports Tree After an initial compressed snapshot of the ports tree has been downloaded and extracted into /usr/ports/ portsnap fetch update *%blue%Some older versions of portsnap do not support this syntax; if it fails, try instead the following: portsnap fetch portsnap update Added lines 3-4:
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%red%Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree. *%blue% Installation On FreeBSD 6.0 and more recent versions, Portsnap is contained in the FreeBSD base system. On older versions of FreeBSD, it can be installed using the ports-mgmt/portsnap port. *%blue% Portsnap Configuration Portsnap's operation is controlled by the /etc/portsnap.conf configuration file. For most users, the default configuration file will suffice. *%blue% Running Portsnap for the First Time The first time portsnap(8) is run, it will need to download a compressed snapshot of the entire ports tree into /var/db/portsnap/ (or /usr/local/portsnap/ if Portsnap was installed from the Ports Collection). This is approximately a 41 MB download. portsnap fetch portsnap extract Note: In the default installation /usr/ports is not created. *%blue% Updating the Ports Tree After an initial compressed snapshot of the ports tree has been downloaded and extracted into /usr/ports/ portsnap fetch update *%blue%Some older versions of portsnap do not support this syntax; if it fails, try instead the following: portsnap fetch portsnap update |