How to update ports tree indexes when using svn

[Andrei Brezan]

On 12/10/2012 4:50 PM, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:39:56 +0100, S.N.Grigoriev 
> <serguey-grigoriev at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> after the security announcement 
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html) I use svn to 
>> update my local ports tree. I've found out that the port index is not 
>> updated. What is the preferred/recommended way to update port indexes 
>> when using svn?
>
> Unless you are a ports committer I recommend you use portsnap to 
> update your ports tree. It takes care of the INDEX file too.
>
> Ronald.
> _______________________________________________
>

One reason to use svn over portsnap would be that you can do a port 
downgrade if needed. Before we had ports-mgmt/portdowngrade for this but 
that relies on CVS which is no longer supported. Maybe there's another 
way that I'm missing.

--
Andrei