Retrieving less data on cvsup?

[Steven Looman]

Recently there was a discussion about this on the freebsd-security mailing 
list.

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Steven

"Diego Calleja" <diegocg at xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:20041101005420.260f297b.diegocg at xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I recently cvsup'ed the FreeBSD ports list. Syncing the ports database has
> always been painful with slow connections, even with compression, 
> specially
> with freebsd's ports. I've always wondered if there's some way of not
> downloading some of the files until I use them, like say
> /usr/ports/foo/files/file.patch, which I'm not going to use until I 
> install
> the program, if I install it. I've diving trough the handbook but I didn't
> find anything, or I missed it. It's possible to do something like that?
>