[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:11:10PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

Well, you can download the head of the main branch,
https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports/snapshot/main.tar.gz and extract it
wherever you like.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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