From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Thu Feb 4 14:55:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13859A9A93B; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:55:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.ptrcrt.ch (gahr.cloud.tilaa.com [84.22.109.158]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFBEE1F3; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from webmail.ptrcrt.ch (www.gahr.ch [192.168.1.2]) by mail.ptrcrt.ch (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id e871f265 TLS version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:54:49 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 15:54:49 +0100 From: Pietro Cerutti To: John Marino Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Organization: The FreeBSD Project In-Reply-To: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <8b37e4951fc45b4f1eeaf5eb67f76804@gahr.ch> X-Sender: gahr@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.4 X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:55:03 -0000 On 2016-01-26 12:23, John Marino wrote: > Author: marino > Date: Tue Jan 26 11:23:38 2016 > New Revision: 407270 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/407270 > > Log: > ports-mgmt/portmaster: DEPRECATE without expiration date > [snip] > Moreover, there are better options available. All FreeBSD platforms > support ports-mgmt/poudriere (although some many struggle under the > load) > and the most common amd64 and i386 platform users have the additional > option of ports-mgmt/synth which is user-friendly, lightweight, and > aimed > at users of portmaster, portupgrade, and even poudriere. I see ports-mgmt/synth is under heavy development, good. I have seen a fairly large number of commits to that port lately, and from what I've read in the commit messages, compatibility is not really taken care of at this point. I seem to remember one commit where one option changed meaning, another fixing a corruption issue, etc.. This is *all good*, really, it's an indication that the project is progressing. But would you honestly advise people to use it in production? portmaster had its limitations, but I always found it to be reliable. At least, it wouldn't change the meaning of options under my nose from one commit to the next one. -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org