On 2021-Apr-01 12:19:08 +0200, Felix Palmen <[email protected]> wrote: >* Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]> [20210326 19:45]: >> ## Felix Palmen ([email protected]): >> >> > I'd assume (someone may correct me) that portsnap will still be >> > supported, >> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-August/119098.html > >Is this finally decided, and is there a timeline? Right now, it seems >portsnap is still built by default on releng/13.0.
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 and standard git has a 2GB working set to checkout a ports tree. gitup reached a 5GB working set size before I gave up. Typical small VPSs are around the 1GB RAM size and moving to something that can support 2GB or 5GB processes is a big price jump. -- Peter Jeremy
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