Re: Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)

2021-04-12 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports
On 2021-Apr-11 14:27:27 +0200, Helge Oldach wrote: >Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:52:11 +0200 (CEST): >> Following the SVN to GIT migration, portsnap is now the only practical >> way to use ports on a low-memory system. I've done some experiments

gitup issues [was Re: No update for a day on ports?]

2021-04-10 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports
On 2021-Apr-01 22:36:02 +1100, Trev wrote: >> I just tried gitup and was told tha I had no permissions for >> /var/db/gitup. "sudo chown $USER /var/db/gitup" fixes that. >I just tried gitup and it was killed after apparently exhausting my >swap space. I had no such problem with portsnap :-(

Re: Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)

2021-04-10 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports
On 2021-Apr-01 12:19:08 +0200, Felix Palmen wrote: >* Christoph Moench-Tegeder [20210326 19:45]: >> ## Felix Palmen (fe...@palmen-it.de): >> >> > I'd assume (someone may correct me) that portsnap will still be >> > supported, >> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-August/1