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Portsnap is a system written by Colin Percival for secure distribution of compressed, digitally signed snapshots of the FreeBSD ports tree. The distribution follows client/server model and the transport protocol used is HTTP (pipelined HTTP). As of FreeBSD 6.0, portsnap is a part of the base system (including 5.5). In previous versions it was installed from ports. It's a standalone program which can be run manually or in a cron job. As such, it is one of alternatives to the classic cvsup method. Its advantages include:
Another alternative to cvsup is CVSync (used to manage the OpenBSD source tree), it shares cvsup disadvantages, though. The portsnap package is distributed under the 2-clause BSD license. [edit] References |
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