> > Later, I am planning to keep information on the manual portgroups in the > snapshot, if there are any. > > > > What would this information be used for? > > > > I am under the impression that a user can categorize and classify the > ports into portgroups, so it should be better if we migrate them too. > Though, it seems highly > > Checkout "man portgroup”, I think your understanding may not be 100% > correct. Portgroups simply provide a way for port authors to include common > code in there ports. > > Perhaps you are thinking that we would need to snapshot portgroup files if > we where to ever support installing older versions of software. In that > case you would be correct, the portgroup files would need to match the > version of the portfile. >
As I said, I myself am not very clear at present but just listing the points to be used later. But the above is what I meant more or less, though I was clear on the relation between portgroups and the versions. - Umesh
