[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 11 21:51:03 UTC 2020


On 8/11/20 9:39 PM, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 August 2020 17:27:01 BST RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
>
>
>> What I'd like to see is a simple way to update the ports tree to match
>> what was used to build the current packages in the repository.
> Something I've felt in need of for a long time, and suggested from time to time
> in the past.
>
> What we need is a pkg command which returns the revision number of the
> ports tree which was used to build the current repository. When provided with
> that information I could run "svnlite up -q -r $REV $PORTSDIR" to keep my ports
> and packages in sync.
>
I also think that would be great.



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