From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Apr 3 09:28:28 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 C2C735C6087 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 09:28:28 +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 4FCBRw3Zngz3jMl; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 09:28:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCBRt291Yz6gY1; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 11:28:26 +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 gXSIxYtExbKE; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 11:28:24 +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> <25d29e77-57a1-9562-6e24-0468c3a5e063@madpilot.net> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 11:28:23 +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: 4FCBRw3Zngz3jMl 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 09:28:28 -0000 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 > > > 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