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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 235586 17-May-2012 gjb

MFC r235337:

General mdoc(7) and typo fixes.

PR: 167804


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 179073 17-May-2008 cperciva

Add support for specifying which INDEX files to build via portsnap.conf.

Requested by: brooks
Reminded by: brooks, about halfway through his BSDCan talk


# 162404 18-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


# 149824 06-Sep-2005 cperciva

Teach portsnap how to ignore unwanted parts of the ports tree. A line
of the form "REFUSE foo" in portsnap.conf will result in parts of the
tree matching "^foo" being (a) not extracted by "portsnap extract", (b)
not updated by "portsnap update", and (c) not having any patches or new
ports downloaded by "portsnap fetch" or "portsnap cron". The example
shown in portsnap.conf demonstrates ignoring all the language categories.

As mentioned in portsnap.conf.5, the use of an imcomplete ports tree is
not officially supported; but this is something which many users have
requested, so I'm adding it anyway.

PR: bin/85619 (but not the patch provided therein)
MFC after: 1 month


# 148871 08-Aug-2005 cperciva

Add portsnap to the base system. This is a secure, easy to use,
fast, lightweight, and generally good way for users to keep their
ports trees up to date.

This is version 0.9.4 from the ports tree (sysutils/portsnap) with
the following changes:
1. The experimental pipelined http code is enabled. No seatbelts
in -CURRENT. (^_^)
2. The working directory has moved from /usr/local/portsnap to
/var/db/portsnap (as discussed on -arch two days ago).
3. Portsnap now fetches a list of mirrors (distributed as DNS SRV
records) and selects one randomly. This should help to avoid the
uneven loading which plagues the cvsup mirror network.
4. The license is now 2-clause BSD instead of 3-clause BSD.
5. Various incidental changes to make portsnap fit into the base
system's build mechanics.

X-MFC-After: 6.0-RELEASE
X-MFC-Before: 5.5-RELEASE
X-MFC-To: RELENG_6, RELENG_5, ports
discussed on: -arch and several other places
"yes please" from: simon, remko, flz, Diane Bruce
thinks this is a great idea: bsdimp
Hopes he didn't forget any files: cperciva