> On 4. Aug 2020, at 20:43, Steve Wills <swi...@freebsd.org> 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. > > * Portsnap doesn't seem to save disk space compared to svn or git, if you > count the metadata (stored in /var/db/portsnap by default) and you do an > apples-to-apples comparison of svn or git without history and ignoring > possible ZFS compression. That is, you use "svn export" or git "clone --depth > 1", you see this disk usage: > > 342M svnexport > 426M git > 477M portsnap > > * Portsnap also doesn't work offline which git does. With git, you can also > easily add the history by running "git pull --unshallow" > > * This migration away from portsnap fits well with the planned migration to > git. > > * Also based on the patches we've seen in Bugzilla for some time, usage of > portsnap causes folks to too easily accidentally submit patches to Bugzilla > which don't apply easily. > > * Since portsnap doesn't support quarterly branches, it often causes users to > build on the wrong branch or end up with mismatched packages. That is, they > install packages from quarterly via pkg, then want to customize so run > portsnap and build from head, which can cause problems, as we often see. Even > when this doesn't happen, it adds to troubleshooting to verify that it didn't. > > We are aware people have gotten used to portsnap, but believe: > > * People should be able to easily use svnlite in base or git from pkgs. (Very > few people seem to actually use WITHOUT_SVNLITE). > > * There is also the possibility of falling back to fetching a tar or zip from > https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports/ although this does make updating harder. > > How it will be done, in order: > > * Update poudriere to use svn by default. This is already done: > > https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/pull/764 > https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/commit/bd68f30654e2a8e965fbdc09aad238c8bf5cdc10 > > * Update docs not to mention portsnap. This is already in progress: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25800 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25801 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25803 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25805 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25808 > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363798 > > Many thanks to the folks who have worked and are working on this! > > * Make WITHOUT_PORTSNAP default in base. Currently not certain when this will > happen. May not happen before 13.0, but hopefully it will. > > * Eventually, portsnap servers will see low enough usage they can be disabled. > > 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? Thanks > > Steve (with portmgr@ hat) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
