Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:47:34 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion Message-ID: <CAN6yY1s4e-6W9EvWn7EpC7OHmk71CY5EqjPigdJ8G-6qM9ZkMw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120627173011.GA50088@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20120627173011.GA50088@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> 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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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