[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:40:26PM +0100, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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?

Well, portsnap has a default value hardcoded, otherwise, the value is
taken from /usr/share/mk, like most default values.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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