Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:46:48 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tor-project & git .... Message-ID: <54220668.4030404@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140923230305.471c5dac.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <5421DC35.5000402@hiwaay.net> <20140923230305.471c5dac.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/23/14 16:03, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:46:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> .... I am interested in the tor project (https://www.torproject.org/) >> for anonymizing my browsing. Inconveniently (but not surprisingly), they >> don't have a prebuilt FBSD 9.3 package. > FreeBSD has a port of Tor in its collection, but I don't know > how far that can be used as an integration to web browsers... Hmmmm .... I poked around w/ pkg & found nothing .... Is the port mature enough that it would have a pkg (just curious) ? If not, I will poke around in my ports tree > > >> Even more inconveniently, they >> use git for project management, which I know nothing about. I downloaded >> & installed FBSD git (git-2.1.0) a week or 2 ago, & have been reading >> the man pages, but am still a bit clueless (OK, fully & completely >> clueless) as to how it operates, including how to download a software >> tree to start with. > That's easy: "git clone <source>", where the source is usually > provided on the project page. This will get you a local copy of > the source tree. I tried that & it failed, but I think I was too far down the tree, I'll try again higher up .... [root@kabini1, ~/dev, 4:12:27pm] 358 % git clone https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/refs/heads/maint-3.6 Cloning into 'maint-3.6'... fatal: repository 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/refs/heads/maint-3.6/' not found [root@kabini1, ~/dev, 4:12:37pm] 359 % > > Here are two "cheat sheets" for reference: > > http://training.github.com/kit/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet.pdf > > http://www.git-tower.com/blog/git-cheat-sheet/ I have the cheat sheets, still a bit disoriented .... > > But keep in mind that this source tree usually contains the whole > project source, not just the specific parts you'd need to build > the software on FreeBSD. > > That's why there's the ports collection on FreeBSD: Software which > is contained in it has been patched and approved to build on the > FreeBSD operating system. If possible, use that, it's less proble- > matic. Of course a git checkout of the _current_ sources will offer > you a more recent version, but it may come at the price that more > tweaking is needed to get a usable result. > > Git isn't much different (in purpose) from Subversion (svn) which > FreeBSD uses to track versions, and there are many similarities to > older version control systems like CVS (which FreeBSD previously > used). You just "need" it to get the source tree and to update it > (against the remote repository), that's all. I just located the tor port & am compiling it as I write this, we'll see how it goes .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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