Re: please test: Secure ports tree updating

Dag-Erling Sm鷨grav wrote:
> Colin Percival <[e-mail]> writes:
>>CVSup is slow, insecure, and a memory hog.
>
> if cvsup is slow, you're not using it right.

Let me rephrase.  CVSup is slower than necessary when fetching only a
small number of updates, especially if you have a slow uplink.

> I'm sure portsnap is a wonderful piece of software, but there's no
> need to spread FUD about cvsup to promote it.

CVSup is a great piece of software.  However, it's a piece of software
which was designed in a rather different setting than the current
problem of keeping an up-to-date ports tree.  Where CVSup does a very
wide range of things adequately, portsnap is designed to do one specific
task very well.

Colin Percival
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