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Authored by 0mp on Jul 28 2020, 10:08 AM.
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Do not mention portsnap(8) in ports.7

As we are moving away from portsnap, let's not recommend it in the manual page.

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0mp requested review of this revision.Jul 28 2020, 10:08 AM

Good to go into the tree. Thanks!

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 28 2020, 10:45 AM

As we are moving away from portsnap, ...

We are? What will be the preferred mechanism for updating /usr/ports?

As we are moving away from portsnap, ...

We are? What will be the preferred mechanism for updating /usr/ports?

I've been hearing "git".

@bjk wrote:

I've been hearing "git".

You've heard wrong, it's svn.

I was trying to catch up with r54379 and r54378.

I'm still waiting for the portmgr though to confirm that this change is fine.

mat added a subscriber: mat.

yeah, looks good.

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