Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:18:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What? Message-ID: <1359325099.95581.YahooMailClassic@web164003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20130127150530.5b083a04@gumby.homeunix.com>
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.......... >Thomas Mueller wrote:> I've always used "portsnap fetch update" after the = initial "portsnap> fetch" and "portsnap extract".=A0 What would be the adve= rse side effect> of using svn instead?In general it's best to avoid mixing = update tools unless you fullyunderstand all the corner cases and know it's = safe. The most significant=A0 problem is they can lose track of what filesn= eed to be deleted, which can lead to obsolete patch files being leftin the = tree. One of the functions of "portsnap extract" is to eliminateextra files= in port directories to avoid this >problem. ......... Svn has a a few drawbacks vs csup (space required, longer backups without - .svn=A0=A0 # or equiv=20 in an exclude file, maybe others...) however it may be more advantageous if one understands its use cases and th= e consequences of each one.=A0 Someone would someday maybe be resourceful enough to write one up and post it somewhere in a flowchart... (the "revert" "up" "svnweb"=20 script -a a.log svn up /usr/ports=20 (the intitial creation of it with the long CLI in the forum...) # port # svn revert Makefile # port # svn -R revert . # svn up /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayerxp .... etc etc...=20 As a newbie, those are all I know so far .=A0 And one can use workarounds i= f a disk is short on space,=20 mount -t ufs -o union(fs) /dev/da0 /usr=20 and even svn -up /usr/ports=A0=A0 # after it mounts correctly ... to update the thumbdrive before port updates on the low-disk-space mach= ine. (that is the procedure as I recollect it anyway.=A0 Something could be slig= htly different.) (if /ports in on the thumbdrive)=A0 (that syntax is probably correct, but I= am at another CPU and cannot check it right away.) J. Bouquet (Sorry for the post formatting and any typos...)
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