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Subject: Re: Updating Instructions
To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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On 14/11/2017 12:47, Baho Utot wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/14/17 03:29, Carmel NY wrote:
>> Out of morbid curiosity, I was just wondering why instructions for
>> updating a
>> moved or discontinued port are never posted for "synth", like they are
>> for
>> "portupgrade" or "portmaster" in the UPDATING file? An example would
>> be the
>> recent 20171112 change in the devel/oniguruma* port.
>>
> 
> 
> I think it is because synth is a bads word around here

More likely that very few of us knew about it. This thread was the first
time I heard of it. I've been using poudriere since shortly after it
came out, and it works fine for me.

-- 
An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).