• Free and open-source software portal Portsnap is a system written by Colin Percival for secure distribution of compressed, digitally signed snapshots of...
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    and his freebsd-update became a part of FreeBSD. In 2004 he contributed portsnap, which uses bsdiff to distribute snapshots of the FreeBSD ports tree. His...
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    CURLMOPT_PIPELINING option, but this support was removed in version 7.65.0 portsnap (a FreeBSD ports tree distribution system) Advanced Packaging Tool (APT)...
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  • updates since Windows Server 2003. FreeBSD has supported delta updates using portsnap since November 2005. Given FreeBSD's traditional stance of focusing on...
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