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Old 27th May 2008
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Don't use one supfile for everything. Separate docs, source, www, and ports into their own supfiles (I like to name them /etc/supfile.source, /etc/supfile.docs, and so on).

The tags for each can be different (docs and ports use tag=. while source uses tag=RELENG_7_0 for instance).

Separating them into separate supfiles also allows you to update them separately. For instance, the ports tree changes daily but the source tree for RELENG_7_0 only changes when there are security fixes. Why run cvsup on the source tree (or docs tree) everytime you want to update the ports tree?

You also probably don't want or need www-all. That's the source for the FreeBSD website. You also probably don't want or need cvsroot-all, as that's the entire FreeBSD CVS repo.

You also don't really need a ports supfile, as portsnap is part of the base OS now, and can be a lot faster to use, and require less CPU and network bandwidth.
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