Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:22:59 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating Instructions Message-ID: <BN6PR2001MB17305E330CBE91FE9A9BAB2E80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <f52dc717-a17c-c8db-d930-7da671cb99c2@qeng-ho.org> References: <BN6PR2001MB1730B1AE0B338F8A0EB1F48A80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> <f52dc717-a17c-c8db-d930-7da671cb99c2@qeng-ho.org>
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:00:40 +0000, Arthur Chance stated: >On 14/11/2017 12:47, Baho Utot wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >> On 11/14/17 03:29, Carmel NY wrote: =20 >>> 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. >>> =20 >>=20 >>=20 >> I think it is because synth is a bads word around here =20 > >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. > Personally, I consider "poudriere" over kill for the average user, especial= ly a user who is using FreeBSD on a single PC or laptop. I realize that the updates needed to run synth on FreeBSD-12 are not in pla= ce, and perhaps never will be. In that case, I will be happy to stay with my present system or switch to a different OS. --=20 Carmel
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