No update for a day on ports?

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Fri Apr 2 23:37:41 UTC 2021


On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:35:57AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> 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.
>

How do we use gitup in this scenario?

> -- 
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>

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