From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 9 21:30:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD1B1065672 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A20A8FC1C for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by weyx56 with SMTP id x56so987541wey.13 for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=aVIsWuAdzlEXfjhRqCjKnfhcj2Ad6o6SIQz1wzDjb4Q=; b=nxub9hDTGxlfWAGU1S3z/03Q5DJBt8oAxhvf5JD82Q0g0sfHHlEAuPSAKUvzGHNj83 Verct9Z9V09J2ErPQtfCVMzQsS3lxXM9un0PwxRyUr1NAGgH1jLlx024Vh5x8S2JK6lF pszsNep60zrkR+YI4dHzPUBcP2cadw8Lmkrd3XcGv3tT0GrdP+mi8k/ZPyOApsKcFsGr 3sBtrZOU2BJgCF8SZNOcBBcFNwIAKnHqZRtxc/v/o1FC+cRgX1y3652J1LH39M27LhmQ 6rL53SQ1761CWBx8J0cBmHfUjx5WV2k5y9qnKKZ1ANnmy1f2u6xRvl6/MnRuLV0AJDHM lEkA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.106.130 with SMTP id gu2mr12357092wib.20.1347226240772; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.63.76 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44d31v3ty1.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <1347145713.16545.YahooMailClassic@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <44d31v3ty1.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 14:30:40 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Lowell Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:30:48 -0000 On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kevin Oberman writes: > >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey Bouquet >> wrote: >>> I searched quite a bit upon this announcement to find csup > svn equivalent guides and found little applying to ports... >>> hopefully they will appear prior to the changeover?, something >>> easily learned? >> >> Good point. I found the handbook information adequate, but not as easy >> to follow as it might be. >> Guess I'll write one. It's really quite easy and much faster then csup. >> >> 1. Install devel/subversion >> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random or >> pick the one closer to you. >> 3. Rename (mv) ports/distfiles and ports/packages out of /usr/ports >> 4. rm -r /usr/ports/* >> 5. svn co http://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports >> OR >> svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports >> Ports will now be checked out of the repository and written to /usr/ports >> 6. make -f /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex >> 7. Move ports/distfiles and ports/packages back into /usr/ports. Since >> these directories are not in the repository, they will be ignored by >> updates. >> 7. Update ports as needed with 'svn up /usr/ports' and 'make -f >> /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex' >> This step does the equivalent of csup. >> 8. Use the Subversion manual from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ to >> learn how to other things with svn. Of particular interest is 'svn >> info /usr/ports and setting up the .subversion file to do things like >> ignore some directories. >> If you add private ports to /usr/ports, they will be ignored by svn as >> they don't exist in the repository. >> >> If anyone has suggestions on other things that belong in this list, >> please let me know. > > I submitted some changes for the Handbook, but they really only covered > the things that I thought were now Wrong. Your descriptions are > certainly of higher quality. But I am still learning to count without a computer to help. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8??? **Sigh** Oh, well, I think everyone knows what I meant. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com