Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:59:18 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <2b2b28ea-827f-fc62-3e6a-f8b6fa064e76@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org> References: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2020-08-04 20:43, 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. Hi, Maybe some silly questions already answered: 1) portsnap is populating /usr/ports . Is this location still hardcoded for ports tree installations, or can it be installed anywhere? 2) Should portsnap be a wrapper for GIT/SVN whatever is used? 3) Should /usr/ports be removed from any mtree files? --HPS
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