From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Apr 2 14:47:59 2021 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> 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 789115795F3 for <freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org>; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:47:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@mouf.net) Received: from mouf.net (mouf.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:0:4400:216:3eff:fe69:33b3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mouf.net", Issuer "mouf.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FBjb32dwRz3G8r; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:47:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@mouf.net) Received: from lrrr.mouf.net (cpe-76-182-16-135.nc.res.rr.com [76.182.16.135]) (authenticated bits=0) by mouf.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id 132ElhQB040268 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:47:50 GMT (envelope-from steve@mouf.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mouf.net; s=mail; t=1617374872; bh=htcIlHQ4c8W7zFSS4iwQXa/Nfp18GWvRFo2g3rOFBWc=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=Xmoua1joaE4V3I7nbJEc1PrcRAhp/rGmRsEqQosoNX6gUJ8yjb6wqusHHuHkLgl3M uJ0ADicYdS+l+P9KMK1ufTVJdirGGX7EjBdwadRbZ/Qaq7tSQjpRKZa2dD31cHkBoM 2DM1/EnfJJStYi/P9cWLMzFf3IOwPa3hWvGXopqg= Subject: Re: No update for a day on ports? To: The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> Cc: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20210401082247.668e4394@zeta.dino.sk> <YGV0EvmP3Hkk5543@mail.bsd4all.net> <3b7de439-12a1-70a4-7aec-8b2a9fde38ba@heuristicsystems.com.au> <YGa/xOJ9IpqWe1Im@home.opsec.eu> <YGcfquiZ6Z9O9Lhr@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> From: Steve Wills <steve@mouf.net> Message-ID: <b48df490-cb07-cc72-ce41-2c0e9ec848d2@mouf.net> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 10:47:40 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <YGcfquiZ6Z9O9Lhr@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mouf.net [199.48.129.64]); Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=4.5 tests=KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on mouf.net X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mouf.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FBjb32dwRz3G8r X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none 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 <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:47:59 -0000 Hi, On 4/2/21 9:44 AM, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > > Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update > the ports? There are a number of ways. You can use the prebuilt git package or one of it's variants or substitutes. If you prefer to build git yourself, you can use the upstream source or fetch the ports tree tar from: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/ports/ports/ and use that to build git. Or you could simply delete your tree and re-fetch the tarball each time you update, if you prefer. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but either way the choice is yours. Cheers, Steve