No update for a day on ports?

[Guido Falsi]

On 03/04/21 01:35, The Doctor wrote:
> 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?

What scenario?

Please install gitup and read it's man page, it's straight forward.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>