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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:02:38 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Byron Campbell via freebsd-doc <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Byron Campbell <wa4geg@aim.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Handbook, error, Chapter 4, 4.5 Using the Ports Collection
Message-ID:  <44bluwboch.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <a53b89ac-1bd6-6b44-b464-a0828cf31dff@aim.com> (Byron Campbell via freebsd-doc's message of "Fri, 4 Oct 2019 09:43:30 -0400")
References:  <a53b89ac-1bd6-6b44-b464-a0828cf31dff@aim.com>

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Byron Campbell via freebsd-doc <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> writes:

> Procedure 4.2. Subversion Method
>
> ?????? Check out a copy of the ports tree:
>
> ?????? # svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports
>
> To work the URL must be changed; drop the 'https' and use 'svn'
> instead. The correct command is thus:
>
> ?????? # svn checkout svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports

Why do you think https doesn't work? I would expect it to work at least
as reliably as svn.



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