No update for a day on ports?

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Apr-2, at 18:20, The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 05:54:48PM -0700, Mark Millard via freebsd-ports wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2021-Apr-2, at 17:41, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote on
>>> Sat Apr 3 00:27:42 UTC 2021 :
>>> 
>>> Results:
>>> 
>>>> gitup -v 1 ports
>>>> # Host: github.com
>>>> # Port: 443
>>>> # Repository: /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
>>>> # Target: /usr/ports
>>>> gitup: get_commit_details: refs/heads/master doesn't exist in /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git: Invalid argument
>>> 
>>> When I look at:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/
>>> 
>>> and look at the popup for selecting a branch
>>> I see a "main" but do not see a "master".
>>> 
>>> By contrast when I look at:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/
>>> 
>>> and look at the popup for selecting a branch
>>> I see a "master" but do not see a "main".
>>> 
>>> It looks like the your gitup is configured for
>>> before the conversion, when only the combination:
>> 
>> One aspect of the above sentence is poor: which
>> "conversion"? It might not be the current
>> svn to git one one. For all I know
>> /freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/ could have existed
>> under that naming for a while and
>> /freebsd/freebsd-ports/ could have been tracking
>> svn over the same time frame.
>> 
>>> /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
>>> refs/heads/master
>>> 
>>> existed. Since then the old /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
>>> was effectively renamed to /freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/
>>> and a new /freebsd/freebsd-ports/ was created that used
>>> "main" instead of "master".
>> 
> 
> So what patch is needed to fix the ports issue?
> 

I only recognized the "master" (github/older) vs. "main"
(modern) terminology issue, which was enough to prompt me
to look and see what things looked like and report on
what I found.

I've not done my ports conversion experiments yet and I
will be using git, not gitup. I've never used gitup. So
I do not know the operational details for fixing what
gitup references. (I use git for FreeBSD src.)

I can say that you would want to use
/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git and whatever notation is
appropriate for "main" in order to track ongoing
updates. (Presumes that you stick with github instead
of the FreeBSD servers.)

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
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