From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Apr 3 00:05:51 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 013D65B6DC7 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 00:05:51 +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 4FBxyk5kjFz4bNN; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 00:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBxyh2RXmz6gY2; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 02:05:48 +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 8WsHFCU0OZzc; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 02:05:45 +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: <25d29e77-57a1-9562-6e24-0468c3a5e063@madpilot.net> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 02:05:45 +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: 4FBxyk5kjFz4bNN 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: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 00:05:51 -0000 On 03/04/21 01:35, The Doctor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:35:57AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: >> 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. >> > > How do we use gitup in this scenario? What scenario? Please install gitup and read it's man page, it's straight forward. -- Guido Falsi