No update for a day on ports?

[Guido Falsi]

On 02/04/21 23:16, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:
>> On 02/04/21 15:44, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of base
>>>>> or ports are moving to git?
>>>>
>>>> Yes:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md
>>>>
>>>
>>> Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update
>>> the ports?
>>>
>>
>> The same questions keep being asked even if replied to multiple times.
>>
>> you can use git with the official git repo (once it will be available,
>> migration is still in progress), or reference a mirror on github or
>> gitlab. Some documentation about how to do this is available at [1].
>>
>> If I understand correctly documentation will also be added to the
>> handbook once migration is done.
>>
>> Git is a little complicated but a lot of documentation is available on
>> the internet. search engines are you friends.
>>
>> If you only want to keep /usr/ports updated the easiest tool to achieve
>> that is gitup available in ports at net/gitup.
>>
>> I reiterate, migration is still in progress, the latest available
>> snapshot of the ports tree (at present read only) is via subversion.
>> once migration is done the official git repo and mirrors will be available.
>>
>> There isn't much more to be sail until the migration is done.
>>
> 
> Git is ready,
> 
> but I use pkg/portsnap .
> 
> How does that affect us?

AFAIK you can't use it anymore. Use gitup. It's almost a drop-in 
replacement.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>