portsnap

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:37 AM Patrick M. Hausen <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > Am 26.12.2020 um 20:04 schrieb LuMiWa via freebsd-ports <
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>:
> > ...and I will continue to use portmaster. But I don't understand why
> > we should no keep portsnap.
>
> Kudos to Stefan for keeping portmaster relevant and up-to-date.
> But I never understood the appeal of portsnap. What's the advantage over
>
> svnlite co ...
> cd /usr/ports; make update
>
> This mechanism is in the base system, so an extra tool demands some
> justification ;-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Patrick
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> portsnap(8) predates svnlite by quite a bit, but you have just described
why it is not really worth the overhead of maintaining it. As bugzilla
describes many ticket closures, Overcome by events".
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