From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 14 17:48:08 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 67D8FDD9146 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:48:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.home.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B7C767F31 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id vAEHltBa058290; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:47:55 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: Updating Instructions To: Baho Utot , FreeBSD-Questions References: <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> <37646a67-b5b0-f592-29d6-88cf363227fe@columbus.rr.com> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <3aca1c7f-63ad-80a1-824f-4d04872b7d7a@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:47:55 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <37646a67-b5b0-f592-29d6-88cf363227fe@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 17:48:08 -0000 On 14/11/2017 17:21, Baho Utot wrote: > > On 11/14/2017 8:00 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: >> 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. >> > > Then you must have missed the Dam Marino fallout I think you mean John Marino, Dan Marino was quarterback for the Miami Dolphins in the mid 80s. And yes, I knew nothing about it until Googling just now. I vaguely remember some spat about someone breaking the code of conduct, but I've got enough to do in my life without following things which aren't relevant to me. Time gets shorter the older I get. -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).