Re: Current status of synth in pkgsrc?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 08:15:45AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What is the current status of pkgtools/pkg and synth in pkgsrc?
> 
> John Marino designed synth as a replacement for portupgrade and portmaster in FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD and also ported synth to NetBSD a couple months ago.
> 
> But I ran cvs up -dP in pkgsrc directory (current, not quarterly) just a couple hours ago and found no hint of synth, looking first in pkgtools and then 
> ls -d */synth*  
> showed no match.
> 
> So synth for NetBSD with pkgsrc exists no more?  Do I stay with pkg_rolling-replace?

It exists where it existed before -- in marino's overlay of pkgsrc:

https://github.com/jrmarino/pkgsrc-synth

 Thomas