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On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:29:23 +0000
Carmel NY wrote:

> Out of bogo-learn-bsmorbid 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.

Have you any particular reason to think they are needed? There are no
such instructions for updating with pkg and that's what synth uses
after building local packages.