From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Apr 2 22:36:02 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 AF3C55B50D0 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 22:36:02 +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 4FBvz63nfgz4WMZ; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 22:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBvz4540gz6gY2; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 00:36:00 +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 EjKDk_db6aDk; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 00:35:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: No update for a day on ports? To: The Doctor Cc: Kurt Jaeger , Dewayne Geraghty , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20210401082247.668e4394@zeta.dino.sk> <3b7de439-12a1-70a4-7aec-8b2a9fde38ba@heuristicsystems.com.au> <405a8bca-33e9-77ca-14d9-80761ac505cc@madpilot.net> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 00:35:57 +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: 4FBvz63nfgz4WMZ 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 22:36:02 -0000 On 02/04/21 23:16, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote: >> 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. >> > > Git is ready, > > but I use pkg/portsnap . > > How does that affect us? AFAIK you can't use it anymore. Use gitup. It's almost a drop-in replacement. -- Guido Falsi