From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Fri Oct 4 14:20:22 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@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 4C52512FF8F for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:20:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wa4geg@aim.com) Received: from sonic305-2.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com (sonic305-2.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com [74.6.133.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46lBqB1FHyz4QkQ for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wa4geg@aim.com) X-YMail-OSG: dUatANIVM1m7BBIvV7AKLnp1MZFvqy6OEQVqeWVJgvE5GyE2FD6Kxmq6n3WHxMY UeUINiZMtlQJ2iSUkMCzLur4GyhYzNpg.tN.VEqItGOCp4M3t_4UHL.5DEyeITgh4Ys0X5yxgjny Dx9g.cr16BvPjlGtRzLCyufFX7F6NQU1iofiBxC5G5oiOTsJd2e4265xpa4xTg4F9BWiZTIYDcxA INjxuBlCcH3Cp4GhNSd5wgrCBeCJFNhZi56iy.1Mv3HRHMc9kXOZXs.XXkzzVklPB.cuFE3Pz4vB Ka6BVwtTAtCGxJWTTUCOnRLuaS8jAOtGhO1gpIh.eXa.ecuKSpv4nrZRblyuNtn8Y9QUCkqO0LJL 8tXUz2S5VH11tahlo8pL6c9AXCLfiH8ExQ6tKes09W1xcfR0oiYn3H1UQ9y9iErJMWi1IrcJ002O xL6Q6F9pC_337.0S0UAxwB43DqSvSSZPbAbUJ0DmqcZN9bH6e31KMDLmyMw7_9P36SkYxVLifo7t G.s7jOzGWhiansIHco7zFBZLoj_VEbRSjO601NOx_6TxZcOZU5bJYJXZP6WTPElwjVgzo7CioVEz ZFTLNKE1fjvlTehDYF_L3zIXWOG83uCR3UPnIampih7UrqTjD5.o6Vb2laLmXagJceN4eoPyVsQa IS6iDEPgYzv2FXNMGhMywZgQ_DKexadI5NxvbHcvBJl5Gm4PIgbfYqCUUSlryol_r6s8RkodhCRX x8BvYfioCuKlRKZwuaf1s89FOXCNZ54qpE8eaBl8W4dBFA.ioZbILOIfV2aZiKTKHFCJN50hKHaD nO4mFev8qNMcAoYzmGYGJ7SV4UKVadaor1nVX8WaqN3Sb1zSjMJ6s4ek2FNC1sSkQIiwchrVbhIo EgjeTlaEiHGvCuSdFIuBsJkCXmj_ARmf8aUxf8NUF0LT0veDtjRj7kdBHGimH18UkwOmqYWX.b1R pIg14lpt4t4Hx7rFIATYapFP4dRaPBSeVGueEBHF0x_wec3xN39FJqFUYLQE9xhHwVop5BrwvQYA TkK1cM_dXlJxZ4a8XKKHRG08yZMAjSlyCOY9Bp7AvhZS9Ov4i8bTSWS3xfjsRR7TeFrOPzgAzFIE EPT.vHLzTfVehp.s0hoFWXKq9CDpyU56uBAV6mwT4BMU.cMkGA0JHSMJLV7Edl8pk2OSSUNtfgVA iEiorwHS8nGue9AsZJJWi_d4FRys8or.nwNKpx5q5z4FHXSuWXw6D6oqTZYHUAcjZ6D2Tt78PIqD SZI66s2cslFi5xb1Gq9Xk_HUDvd2EJGVKj5YC8DqG0i841XFWvJ4- Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic305.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Fri, 4 Oct 2019 14:20:20 +0000 Received: by smtp406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 8b245bc0a4899c1747a206e4a2e82b64; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Handbook, error, Chapter 4, 4.5 Using the Ports Collection To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <44bluwboch.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> From: Byron Campbell Message-ID: <7ab434e9-0f16-3f07-0208-39cb69c22af6@aim.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:20:18 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44bluwboch.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46lBqB1FHyz4QkQ X-Spamd-Bar: ----- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.00 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:20:22 -0000 On 2019-10-04 10:02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Byron Campbell via freebsd-doc 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. > When issuing the command: # svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports returns the following: svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head' svn: E000065: Error running context: No route to host The only way to get it to work on my FreeBSD-12 machine is to correct the URL, as per my original message. Maybe give it a try and see how it works for you.