Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:44:37 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: Helmut, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> Subject: Re: svn and/or portsnap Message-ID: <20120911144437.0468925a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <45.E0.00499.C13FE405@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <45.E0.00499.C13FE405@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:15:24 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > One question comes up that I didn't think of immediately. > > How do you use svn on a fresh install of FreeBSD, no ports yet? > > svn/subversion is not part of the base system. > > How do you get the ports tree or svn in that case if not using portsnap? As this is an O(1) kind of problem, I'd suggest the easiest way: Use the package for svn. Install svn via # pkg_add -r svn (or however the svn package is called) and then use it to incorporate the full ports tree (and maybe also bring your OS sources to the branch you want, patched RELEASE, STABLE or HEAD). Afterwards, upgrade svn with the version from the ports tree which will possibly be newer. Then continue using ports to install software as usual. When CVS was not part of the OS, I went the same way by installing cvsup-without-x11 (or how the package was called) to be able to update ports and sources via CVS. Today this is not needed anymore, as CVS (as csup) is part of the OS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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