From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 22:00:21 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 7A8111065674; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.dw.redsrci.com (mail.pub.dw.redsrci.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4078D8FC0A; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.dw.redsrci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dw.redsrci.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC097715CB6; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:53:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:organization:in-reply-to:content-disposition :content-type:content-type:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t=1340834035; x=1342648435; bh=Cq2b5FCBQyzwLjtBiwMTvFXXgw 57VgrxdvNzCfVqGtU=; b=DC4Y+stwLItRr0R0u2kk+GwYy6CwS12U14O1pH1Gyn Sc7Ln5wNvHJ6E27sDZ6UR6dG/U0gK8QPauFIEcyjx2rEjWoomnvE9va/rLFy3hhK OpEzK5GB2WP42/hmKPBst+irv7uI/+jaj26SMhv5cFBxZTNq7goGa5ZGOHdfyNpQ s= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.dw.redsrci.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.dw.redsrci.com (mail.dw.redsrci.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dwsJXG1c2eoF; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [192.168.103.120]) by mail.dw.redsrci.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E999715C9E; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 55839 invoked by uid 1001); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:52:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:52:16 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20120627215215.GS47920@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> References: <20120627173011.GA50088@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 Organization: Experts-Exchange, LLC. http://www.experts-exchange.com X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Thomas Abthorpe Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:00:21 -0000 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Kevin Oberman thus spake: >On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: >> The FreeBSD ports tree will migrate from CVS to Subversion soon. The >> anticipated date for the migration is July 14th. This will have no impact >> for ports tree users as there will be a SVN to CVS exporter. >> >> Please note that cvsup will still work after the migration. Nevertheless >> c(v)sup is pretty dated so you may want to see if portsnap(8) will fit your >> needs. >> >> Beat and Thomas >> on behalf of portmgr@ >> >> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/06/27/ports-tree-migration-to-subversion/ > >While portsnap has several advantages over csup, it is unusable in my >case because I have always maintained local mods to ports in the ports >tree and portsnap neatly removes them. I may move to using svn to >maintain my own copy of the tree and update the working directory >where I can keep my customizations. You may want to look at the manpage for portsnap.conf and see how advantageous it may be to use the REFUSE option. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5