How to update /usr/src/ using SVN and "make update"?

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011, at 10:59, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Taking the instruction from manpage make.conf(5) and setting  variable
> SVN_UPDATE to YES, typing "make update" in /usr/src	 fails due to svn
> can not be found. make.conf(5) also contains a variable "SUP" containing
> the path for cvsup or cvsup and I'm desperately missing a similar
> variable for subversion.

Adding SVN="/usr/local/bin/svn" to /etc/make.conf works.

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>>> Updating /usr/src using Subversion
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/usr/local/bin/svn update
Updating '.':
At revision 228392.

-- 
Herbert