From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 18:26:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8910399A for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401E18FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAGIQPwx076948; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:26:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id qAGIQPHM076945; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:26:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:26:25 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Anton Shterenlikht Subject: Re: Users Handbook In-Reply-To: <201211161557.qAGFvGHe016065@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <201211161557.qAGFvGHe016065@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:26:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jnagyjr1978@gmail.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:26:32 -0000 On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:15:04 -0700 (MST) > From: Warren Block > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html > > You mean this part? > > Check out a copy of the ports tree. Use a specific Subversion mirror > close to your geographic location instead of svn.FreeBSD.org in the > command below for better performance. Committers should read the > Subversion Primer first to be sure the correct protocol is chosen. > > # svn checkout svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports > > Are there only two mirrors? > > svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org > svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org At present.