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. -- Mathieu Arnold
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