[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 6. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:17:37AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>> We welcome any constructive feedback. All input would be heard, and if the plans need to be amended, we will come back to you with the amended plan in a couple of weeks. This process will take some time and hopefully won't be too disruptive to anyone's usual workflow.
>> 
>> What will be the process to bootstrap git?
> 
> pkg install git comes to mind.
> 

I obviously meant bootstrapping without relying on binary packages (for multiple reasons) >_<

E.g., pulling a tarball (from a github mirror or some other place) using “fetch” to populate an intermediate ports tree to build git/other dependencies. Shouldn’t be hard to do and easy to document.

-m