Felix Palmen felix at palmen-it.de wrote on Sat Apr 3 20:35:46 UTC 2021 : > * Mark Millard via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> [20210403 > 10:02]: > > Felix Palmen felix at palmen-it.de wrote on > > > There was an announcement to deprecate it, but it's still built with > > > releng/13 so far, and I'd be surprised if the snapshots for it wouldn't > > > be available any more. Deprecation of portsnap AFAIK isn't directly > > > related to moving to git. (someone correct me please if I'm wrong) > > > > /usr/sbin/portsnap is just a shell script: > --snip-- > > Please see the original announcement for context: > <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-August/119098.html>
Good point: QUOTE * Make WITHOUT_PORTSNAP default in base. Currently not certain when this will happen. May not happen before 13.0, but hopefully it will. * Eventually, portsnap servers will see low enough usage they can be disabled. END QUOTE Even if WITHOUT_PORTSNAP was the default, the wording suggests that WITH_PORTSNAP would be allowed for a time. And it suggests that portsnap servers disabling would be based on monitoring usage of the servers. > In a nutshell: It was *planned* to no longer build portsnap by default > in 13. Now, it's still built, so I assume that's intentional and > snapshots will still be available (for some time). Seems so. > These snapshots aren't provided by SVN, therefore I doubt having ports > in GIT will cause any technical trouble creating them? The /usr/ports/ content provided by portsnap is extracted from SVN historically and will have to be extracted from git going forward. I expect that there is some implementation change to have the materials show up in the portsnap servers. I'm not claiming to estimate how difficult the change would be. > Side note: your postings have no meaningful References and therefore > don't show up in the correct location in the thread, maybe check your > mail client? Sorry for such problems. > And please don't CC me, I'm reading the list. Okay, but long term I may not remember. I've gotten requests for the other way as well and I'm not likely to try to track all the individual preferences in any reliable manor. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
