From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 14 17:23:41 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 27489DD870F for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E53CE671DE for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id EetieADtTs0jREetleIFkp; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:21:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eEevv-0006KJ-W1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:23:36 +0000 Subject: Re: Updating Instructions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <7b34601d-614d-73a5-c660-1b1eb41b85ec@columbus.rr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:23:29 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfKIIpJWatdGLVfRSzMu5Nn0R09LL6dYGQEQzQd/l+1WIRN2uQMsDuJ1CZRMgm93Os4M2s1H1EU5UwjmJMl7dL8HchLzDqH/BoIOFQZQnAoMhciLKOo7c p9Lra5wagW9hNSsxFWNQFtONADDOSKYUFLj0XdbwMyUqwVMIMLyUM1m5Cdw8YIoM1QT6nXoXqjCm7FQwq9YN/SwKQ6bGtERfBg0= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:23:41 -0000 On 11/14/2017 8:22 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:00:40 +0000, Arthur Chance stated: > >> 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. >> > Personally, I consider "poudriere" over kill for the average user, especially > 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 place, > and perhaps never will be. In that case, I will be happy to stay with my > present system or switch to a different OS. > Ditto that for me