From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Aug 5 10:59:49 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A31371B6E for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BM7tY3Gylz4gBl for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 6E8FF371B6D; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E53F3715D2 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c17:6c4b::2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BM7tX3SKTz4gMp; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from hps2020.home.selasky.org (unknown [178.17.145.105]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DAEF260378; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:59:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap To: Steve Wills , "ports@FreeBSD.org" References: From: Hans Petter Selasky Message-ID: <2b2b28ea-827f-fc62-3e6a-f8b6fa064e76@selasky.org> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:59:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BM7tX3SKTz4gMp X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of hps@selasky.org designates 2a01:4f8:c17:6c4b::2 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=hps@selasky.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.41 / 15.00]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a:mail.turbocat.net]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[selasky.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.01)[-1.013]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.96)[-0.964]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.14)[-0.136]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:59:49 -0000 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