Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:49:17 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <540076CD.6000201@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <54007189.8070807@hiwaay.net> References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> <54007189.8070807@hiwaay.net>
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On 29/08/2014 13:26, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 08/29/14 07:11, Arthur Chance wrote: >> On 29/08/2014 13:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> >>> On 08/28/14 17:51, Roland Smith wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:43:49PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> .... How do I check to see if the ports collection has been updated >>>>> ? I >>>>> had some problems a week or so ago getting some stuff to compile. >>>>> There >>>>> were some later posts alluding to some ports being a bit stale .... If >>>>> that was my problem, I'd like to update & try again .... >>>> The http://www.freshports.org/ site gives a nice overview of recent >>>> port >>>> changes. It also lists the SVN revision. If you use subversion to keep >>>> your >>>> ports tree up to date you can check the state of your ports tree with; >>>> >>>> > svnlite log -r HEAD /usr/ports/ >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> r366459 | danilo | 2014-08-29 00:34:41 +0200 (Fri, 29 Aug 2014) | >>>> 2 lines >>>> >>>> - Update from 1.40.01 to 1.40.02 >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> In this case my ports tree is at r366459. >>>> >>>> Generally I like to update my ports tree weekly. That *generally* >>>> makes for >>>> relatively small updates using svnlite (in the base system in FreeBSD >>>> 10) and >>>> ports-mgmt/portmaster; >>>> >>>> # svnlite /usr/ports >>>> # less /usr/ports/UPDATING >>>> # portmaster -ai >>>> >>>> Reading UPDATING is important! Sometimes updates need special actions. >>>> >>>> Roland >>> >>> This sounds like it is very close to what I am looking for. I typed in >>> the above command & the shell said command not found .... What pkg('s) >>> do I need for svnlite support ? TIA .... >> >> It's in the base system: >> >> fileserver:3# which svnlite >> /usr/bin/svnlite >> >> > > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 7:26:08am] 334 % uname -a > FreeBSD kabini1 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu Jul 10 > 23:44:39 UTC 2014 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > [root@kabini1, /etc, 7:26:13am] 335 % which svnlite > svnlite: Command not found. > [root@kabini1, /etc, 7:26:18am] 336 % Ah, I'm on 10.0-RELEASE and 10-STABLE. If you simply want to update /usr/ports, why not use portsnap? It works well enough for me. If you specifically want a light version of svn, take look at the net/svnup port. I started using that before svnlite turned up, and still do out of habit.
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