Portsnap no updates since 3/31/2021 ?

[Charles Sprickman]

> On Apr 6, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 06:49:17AM -0400, Robert Blayzor via freebsd-stable wrote:
>> I have several servers running 11.4 and 12.2 that do nightly portsnap
>> updates and the last time they've seen anything new is 3/31/2021, since
>> then, nothing.
>> 
>> This seems highly unusual since seems like there was always SOMETHING
>> updated daily.... now nothing.
> 
> git transition
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/git <https://wiki.freebsd.org/git>

Is portsnap still going to be supported?

I was noticing my local ports tree (which autoupdates every night with portsnap) was looking pretty dated, so I started googling and found talk on the forums that portsnap was going away (this was late 2020) and folks were suggesting svnlite and fetching updates via svn. Based on that, I just nuked my ports tree and grabbed it again via git, which seems to have worked.

What’s odd is that looking at that wiki entry, this port should have been up to date if I was using portsnap:

https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass/ <https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass/>

But portsnap kept insisting that I was up to date even though I was seeing version 1.21.3.4015…

Anyhow, if anyone can confirm portsnap status, I’d love to know what the official line is and whether I should expect to see it around for awhile.

Is the git transition impacting freebsd-update at all? etcupdate?

Thanks,

Charles

> 
> Regular service should resume soon
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary
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