[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:59:18PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 2020-08-04 20:43, Steve Wills wrote:
> > 
> > We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports.
> > 
> > The reasons are as follows (in no particular order):
> > 
> > * Portsnap doesn't support quarterly branches, even years after
> > quarterly branches were created and changed to the default for non-HEAD
> > packages.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe some silly questions already answered:
> 
> 1) portsnap is populating /usr/ports . Is this location still hardcoded for
> ports tree installations, or can it be installed anywhere?
> 
> 3) Should /usr/ports be removed from any mtree files?

The default location for the ports tree is taken from the PORTSDIR
environment variable, and it defaults to /usr/ports.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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