Proposed ports git transition schedule

Felix Palmen felix at palmen-it.de
Fri Mar 26 23:20:02 UTC 2021


* Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> [20210326 20:22]:
> Felix Palmen <felix at palmen-it.de> wrote:
> > I don't get what you mean. Repo details? A URL.
> 
> With portsnap, I don't need a URL. It's built in. And that would be
> nice.

Ever had a look in /etc/portsnap.conf? Although it only wants a server
name (well, much of a difference), there's nothing built in. gitup comes
with a working configuration as well.

> > And that's all it does, it doesn't do any "security checks", that's
> > handled by pkg audit.
> 
> What does it need a public key for?

Checking integrity of the downloaded snapshots? With fetching from
repositories, integrity checks are built in.

> No, that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking (on behalf of many people,
> I'm sure) just what I have to enter instead of:
> 
>   $ portsnap fetch extract

$ gitup ports

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