Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 08:03:18 +0200 From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <1923096.4WAli8B44Z@walrus.pepperland> In-Reply-To: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org> References: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 8:43:20 PM CEST Steve Wills wrote: > We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports. > > The reasons are as follows (in no particular order): > > * Portsnap doesn't support quarterly branches, even years after > quarterly branches were created and changed to the default for non-HEAD > packages. [...] The portsnap-servers seem to lack updates at the moment, so I decided to t= ry to switch to SVN. I usually run `pkg version` to see what packages have changed. Previously, that was a more or less instant operation, now it takes over 1= 00 seconds. The problem is that /usr/ports/INDEX-12 is missing. Looks like INDEX doesn't exist in SVN but was provided by portsnap. make i= ndex takes several minutes, so that's a quite a downgrade from portsnap where I= got it for free. Are there any faster ways to regenerate INDEX? There's make fetchindex but that's not guaranteed to be in sync with the latest SVN.
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