Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 13:32:10 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>, "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <20200805113210.k7fuo7zokz2aivke@aching.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <2b2b28ea-827f-fc62-3e6a-f8b6fa064e76@selasky.org> References: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org> <2b2b28ea-827f-fc62-3e6a-f8b6fa064e76@selasky.org>
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--pzjm5iv3gxyoygg2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:59:18PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 2020-08-04 20:43, Steve Wills wrote: > >=20 > > We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports. > >=20 > > The reasons are as follows (in no particular order): > >=20 > > * Portsnap doesn't support quarterly branches, even years after > > quarterly branches were created and changed to the default for non-HEAD > > packages. >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Maybe some silly questions already answered: >=20 > 1) portsnap is populating /usr/ports . Is this location still hardcoded f= or > ports tree installations, or can it be installed anywhere? >=20 > 3) Should /usr/ports be removed from any mtree files? The default location for the ports tree is taken from the PORTSDIR environment variable, and it defaults to /usr/ports. --=20 Mathieu Arnold --pzjm5iv3gxyoygg2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAABCgB9FiEEVhwchfRfuV0unqO5KesJApEdfgIFAl8qmLVfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDU2 MUMxQzg1RjQ1RkI5NUQyRTlFQTNCOTI5RUIwOTAyOTExRDdFMDIACgkQKesJApEd fgJXVQ//VqnCHHz8PCCKpfFKR1Grzfmdhw4p4l8C8GMCJOJwDnXo2elYqiZHGYQS BDVRXPsSwnAPjuMTWPCjY+nCFJrKMbQv+quWbt+RKNARP5X9tkaJ6uk6sw05R3/b j8mzekq2eDDlLYnjXEyH0J9hrtjaZkiM6S4dugQUBRE6yszdabvdGNL4Ti/9ah49 SG4RfFXKtfTfuSdQav15/Lz19tT7VWqaJwh2IjTnclHdfrnkJRAvhkLbbvtnbRFg AsYAAvjk1ud9o7okw7fhUkRrCmPmWPk8ca1Mw7y3d3QgwCMiO5UFFUQ+7apBkWjV 1ceD36+97nJXOq0SJO+fEk7GF3082PlkypV0ZRfi+RKy0j/TRfgC7yq6Zq9hiHZH 0VqZe6nWX5jQjX0dyAql9rXDtxK/BIwsSSRDDx4aZeZbWX7KK1f3ipKNZXifecUR w5fJiozAvSET3WVUWXH3tsGOMhTd58uoOALnDlGN4Bohu8dEoueDYmU8FAtqHuQp SVXlZ0UygAmOpLSv+rTKQZ7uVTKvlkXb3NYMv92o/qIWYYfDoc1C5cPQIBGNL6BQ PZI/Lcj8ZBUUl8Si2ZtfNYb7phQC6EyBgm2XE/rAsoRJ3dP8E6Hjx5pzIodawygn qaQQ1tK5w4KGgMAImiGA2vKG/GDx6VMrElGp9xk8uQ8Lsz4LlZM= =InMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pzjm5iv3gxyoygg2--
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