Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 14:30:40 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uFOvnq-7RiKZbho1Jmf7SkNeCiWyYS_s0EQEDWSmWmLA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44d31v3ty1.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <CAN6yY1vFadjHcrmRirYe-R0TgO6dbA1MWqU6MrDF5b8bNP1FzQ@mail.gmail.com> <1347145713.16545.YahooMailClassic@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <CAN6yY1tTdhpDx9QARmaiQ58buB0mJADDqWdF7QCenL6OHQEAFQ@mail.gmail.com> <44d31v3ty1.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey Bouquet >> <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> 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
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