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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2017 16:38:34 -0400
From:      Jim Ohlstein <jim@mailman-hosting.com>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The future of portmaster
Message-ID:  <1496176714.1095.44.camel@mailman-hosting.com>
In-Reply-To: <9284B642-95B4-459E-859E-DAA9C665954B@adamw.org>
References:  <201705301351.v4UDpHwY048949@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <9FEDBFCE-27D1-432B-926B-7BF401AD7B19@adamw.org> <B7.5D.01815.EC3DD295@dnvrco-omsmta03> <9284B642-95B4-459E-859E-DAA9C665954B@adamw.org>

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On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 14:25 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > On 30 May, 2017, at 14:19, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > One thing I forgot to mention in my last post is that the UPDATING
> > file looks geared to portmaster and portupgrade.
> > 
> > Users are thus led to believe that portupgrade and portmaster are
> > still the currently recommended tools.
> > 
> > If the ports people want to get users to switch to synth or
> > poudriere, updating instructions should include synth and
> > poudriere.
> 
> There are no updating instructions for them. They do the right thing
> automatically. Only portmaster needs its hand held every time
> something gets updated.
> 
> The only difference is that things go into a make.conf in
> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/ rather than /etc/make.conf (see
> CUSTOMISATION in poudriere(8) for details), and I don't know if synth
> has a special place for it too.
> 

And not only that, but poudriere reads MOVED as well.

> 
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