From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Apr 2 14:45:11 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F0F57983B for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:45:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail.madpilot.net (vogon.madpilot.net [159.69.1.99]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FBjWq0JRKz3Fq1; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:45:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBjWg3n5Wz6gXx; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 16:45:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.madpilot.net ([192.168.254.3]) by mail (mail.madpilot.net [192.168.254.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id yjYoZtpLqIbR; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 16:45:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: No update for a day on ports? To: The Doctor , Kurt Jaeger Cc: Dewayne Geraghty , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20210401082247.668e4394@zeta.dino.sk> <3b7de439-12a1-70a4-7aec-8b2a9fde38ba@heuristicsystems.com.au> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: <405a8bca-33e9-77ca-14d9-80761ac505cc@madpilot.net> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 16:45:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FBjWq0JRKz3Fq1 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:45:11 -0000 On 02/04/21 15:44, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of base >>> or ports are moving to git? >> >> Yes: >> >> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md >> > > Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update > the ports? > The same questions keep being asked even if replied to multiple times. you can use git with the official git repo (once it will be available, migration is still in progress), or reference a mirror on github or gitlab. Some documentation about how to do this is available at [1]. If I understand correctly documentation will also be added to the handbook once migration is done. Git is a little complicated but a lot of documentation is available on the internet. search engines are you friends. If you only want to keep /usr/ports updated the easiest tool to achieve that is gitup available in ports at net/gitup. I reiterate, migration is still in progress, the latest available snapshot of the ports tree (at present read only) is via subversion. once migration is done the official git repo and mirrors will be available. There isn't much more to be sail until the migration is done. [1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#git-primer -- Guido Falsi