Proposed ports git transition schedule

Bob Eager rde at tavi.co.uk
Fri Mar 26 09:22:54 UTC 2021


On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:56:03 -0400
Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> When the conversion is complete, Subversion will become read-only with
> no further updates to the ports tree. If you are fetching ports using
> svn, you will need to switch to the new git repository at the
> following URLS:
> 
> Web repository browser:
>     https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/
> 
> Distributed mirrors for anonymous readonly checkout/clone
>     https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git
>     ssh://anongit@git.freebsd.org/ports.git

Thanks for this. The documentation (although introductory) is quite
detailed. What would be useful is just to note down the exact
replacement for:

  portsnap fetch
  portsnap extract

when the migration is complete. A shell script would be even better!


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