portsnap depreciation

[Rene Ladan]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:58:29PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:43:48 +0000, Pau Amma stated:
> >On 2020-09-18 11:14, Carmel NY wrote:
> >> Is 'portsnap'
> >> going to be depreciated?  
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >> If so, when?  
> >
> >I believe when 13.0 is released, or already if you're using a recent 
> >-current.
> >
> >> If is is depreciated, how will
> >> this affect poudriere?  
> >
> >See 
> >https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing-poudriere.html#testing-poudriere-ports-tree 
> >and the next sections.
> 
> According to the above page, "The most straightforward way is to have
> Poudriere create a default ports tree for itself, using either
> portsnap(8) (if running FreeBSD 12.1 or 11.4) or Subversion (if running
> FreeBSD-CURRENT)" Am I to understand that if I am running 11.4-RELEASE,
> I cannot use subversion?
> 
You can if you specify the -m (method) parameter when creating the
poudriere ports tree.

René