Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:23:29 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Instructions Message-ID: <7b34601d-614d-73a5-c660-1b1eb41b85ec@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <BN6PR2001MB17305E330CBE91FE9A9BAB2E80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> References: <BN6PR2001MB1730B1AE0B338F8A0EB1F48A80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> <f52dc717-a17c-c8db-d930-7da671cb99c2@qeng-ho.org> <BN6PR2001MB17305E330CBE91FE9A9BAB2E80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
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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
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