Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 11:28:23 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No update for a day on ports? Message-ID: <d0cd2d7d-5e8e-01af-3558-6b9638f91ae5@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <YGe1sEG75E3M249o@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> 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> <405a8bca-33e9-77ca-14d9-80761ac505cc@madpilot.net> <YGeJxftHiYncV8B2@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <b40299a0-f8b6-e84a-f37c-5a972e55015f@madpilot.net> <YGeqQNkuI9dIljiH@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <25d29e77-57a1-9562-6e24-0468c3a5e063@madpilot.net> <YGe1sEG75E3M249o@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
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On 03/04/21 02:24, The Doctor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: >> 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 <mad@madpilot.net> > > > Results: > > gitup -v 1 ports > # Host: github.com > # Port: 443 > # Repository: /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git > # Target: /usr/ports > gitup: get_commit_details: refs/heads/master doesn't exist in /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git: Invalid argument > Thew migration is still in progress, so I guess the repository is in an unstable state. Try again once the migration is done. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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