[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Bob Eager]

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On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 13:32:10 +0200
Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Is that true for installation __of the tree__, as asked? If so, how is
it set?
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