No update for a day on ports?

[Guido Falsi]

On 03/04/21 02:24, The Doctor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
> 
> 
> 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
> 

Thew migration is still in progress, so I guess the repository is in an 
unstable state. Try again once the migration is done.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>