Dag-Erling Sm鷨grav wrote: > Colin Percival <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"