freebsd-ports/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr
Colin Percival 3d918f98ba 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
2005-01-16 01:24:26 +00:00

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Portsnap is a system for securely updating the ports tree by
distributing signed compressed snapshots. This is the client
half of that system; it downloads compressed snapshots into
/usr/local/portsnap ("portsnap fetch") and uses those to extract
a ports tree into /usr/ports ("portsnap extract") or update an
existing tree ("portsnap update").
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/
- Colin Percival
cperciva@daemonology.net