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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ports cvs deprecation warning
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	From fjwcash@gmail.com Sat Jan 12 22:42:22 2013
	>
	>         Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:55:50 -0700 (MST)
	>         From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
	>
	>         Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how
	about
	>         putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now?
	>
	>         Mention that cvs mirrors will be going away and point to the
	portsnap
	>         and svn update methods shown in the Handbook:
	>
	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
	>
	> I probably missed something.
	>
	> Usually I do a minimal install,
	> then pull the ports tree via csup,
	> then install subversion, etc.
	>
	> If neither csup nor subversion are
	> in base, then how do I get the ports
	> tree in the first instance, if I
	> forgot or intentionally didn't install
	> ports as part of bsdinstall?

	man portsnap

Does is work on non amd64/i386 arches
(sparc64 and ia64 specifically)?

Thanks

Anton