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Date:      Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:52:11 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)
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In-Reply-To: <20210401101908.vrdkx4kphfjm2dau@nexus.home.palmen-it.de>
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On 2021-Apr-01 12:19:08 +0200, Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de> wrote:
>* Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> [20210326 19:45]:
>> ## Felix Palmen (felix@palmen-it.de):
>>=20
>> > I'd assume (someone may correct me) that portsnap will still be
>> > supported,
>>=20
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-August/119098.html
>
>Is this finally decided, and is there a timeline? Right now, it seems
>portsnap is still built by default on releng/13.0.

Following the SVN to GIT migration, portsnap is now the only practical
way to use ports on a low-memory system.  I've done some experiments
and standard git has a 2GB working set to checkout a ports tree.
gitup reached a 5GB working set size before I gave up.  Typical small
VPSs are around the 1GB RAM size and moving to something that can
support 2GB or 5GB processes is a big price jump.

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Peter Jeremy

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