Oct 16
rip-cvsup

CVSup - slow, painful, annoying (imho, prove me wrong!).

For the last year or so I’ve exclusively used Portsnap.  From the handbook:

Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree. Approximately once an hour, a “snapshot” of the ports tree is generated, repackaged, and cryptographically signed. The resulting files are then distributed via HTTP.

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