On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:40:26PM +0100, Bob Eager wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 13:32:10 +0200 > Mathieu Arnold <m...@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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