portsnap depreciation

[Pau Amma]

On 2020-09-18 17:58, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:43:48 +0000, Pau Amma stated:
>> 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?

"The most straightforward", not "the only". You can definitely use 
Subversion with 11.4 if you wish or need to. What you no longer can do 
is use portsnap with -CURRENT. (I'll grant that "straightforward" may be 
in the eye of the beholder, though.)