Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:46:13 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <montgomerysmithstephen@gmail.com> Cc: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No more ports-cur? Message-ID: <YHPstaddwIwFBywV@bali> In-Reply-To: <6283178b-f947-23c9-7e42-a31ff499134d@gmail.com> References: <202104101634.13AGYNgv018107@fire.js.berklix.net> <6283178b-f947-23c9-7e42-a31ff499134d@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 10-Apr-2021 at 14:41:47 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 4/10/21 11:34 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Andre Albsmeier wrote: > >> No more ports-cur since 2021-03-31 (even on ctm.berklix.org). Did I miss > >> something? > > > > Hi Andre, > > Thanks, Stuff is missing, I'll see what I can fix & report back. > > > > Cheers, > > ports is no longer available via svn. It has moved to git. So until > someone switches CTM from svn to git, there probably won't be any more > updates. Oops, I see. Thanks for the information. > > I think now is a good time to switch from CTM to git. git really has > many of the advantages that CTM has. For example, you can download the > whole repository without actually updating your ports tree. Then it is > present on your computer, so you can update the ports tree even when you > aren't connected to the internet. In fact you can switch between > different commits, and different branches, very easily. This is probably all true but for the price of throwing around 100s of MB for features a typical CTM-user doesn't need :-). For people who just want to have up-to-date trees, this is all overkill. A solution might be net/gitup which is quite lightweight but currently does not work via HTTP proxies (but people are working on it). -Andrehome | help
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