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Subject: Re: Unable to update ports using svnlite
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To: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl>
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From: Clinton Bessesen <clinton@xopen.plus.com>
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Hi Fonz,
Thanks for your advise. Yup, I'm myself in Europe, after trying many 
different things, it seems to have been a DNS issue. Used your 
suggestion "svn0.eu.freebsd.org" and all back to normal.
Might have to get our DNS server cache refreshed!!!
Many thanks for your help!
Cheers
Clinton

On 24/02/2016 17:10, Alphons van Werven wrote:
> Clinton Bessesen wrote:
>
>> Running freebsd 10.2 and have been able to checkout the ports/head using
>> svnlite for quite sometime in the past.
> [snip]
>> unable to run "/usr/bin/svnlite checkout --depth empty
>> svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /tmp/ports/tree"
> I don't know how others handle this, but the following works for me:
>
> # mkdir /root/bin
> # ln -s `which svnlite` /root/bin/svn
> # svn checkout https://svn0.eu.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
>
> Note that I'm in Europe, there should be a list of geographically suitable
> mirrors somewhere. And svn.freebsd.org itself works, too.
>
> HTH,
>
> Fonz
>