HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Karl Denninger]

On 12/22/2020 15:19, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm wrote:
>
> On 2020-Dec-22, at 10:39, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 05:46:35PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> The FreeBSD project will be moving it's source repo from subversion to git
>>> starting this this weekend. The docs repo was moved 2 weeks ago. The ports
>>> repo will move at the end of March, 2021 due to timing issues.
>>>
>> Is there some way to obtain git on a Pi2B running
>> 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #2 r365692
>> without installing the ports tree? I expected
>> to find git in base, but it isn't there.
>>
>> Can it be found  under another package name?
>>
> git in base would have licensing issues.
>
> Pi2B: v1.1 (armv7 only)? v1.2 running armv7 FreeBSD?
> v1.2 running arm64 FreeBSD?
>
>
> It does appear that arm64 ports builds have started again, or are at
> least being experimented with . . .
>
> Filling the Built search field with "/git" at:
>
> http://ampere2.nyi.freebsd.org/build.html?mastername=head-arm64-default&build=p557699_s368500
>
> shows that devel/git built. The context looks to be:
>
> FreeBSD head -r368500 was used to as the context the builds were for.
> Ports head   -r557699 was the vintage of the ports tree build.
> This is for head-arm64-default, not a quarterly build.
>
> It also shows devel/git at lite as having been built --and
> devel/git at gui and devel/git at tiny and devel/git-lfs and
> so on.
>
> The page also reports:
>
> Queued	Built	Failed	Skipped	Ignored	Remaining
> 32987	28781	304	3106	796	0
> Load Averages	Swapinfo	Elapsed	Pkg/Hour	Impulse
> ( 4%) 1.31 1.40 1.66	4.41%	142:17:22	205	--
>
> It is the only modern arm64 build that I found with anywhere near 28781
> ports built.
>
> Looks like this is for well after head -r365692 .
>
> Unfortunately, https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds?type=package does
> not yet seem to include ampere2.nyi.freebsd.org based builds.
>
I set up a poudriere environment on my AMD64 system that cross-builds 
ports for the Pi2 for this exact reason; I need "git" for development 
there and in addition I also have a half-dozen packages that I want to 
be able to use, so that was the simplest answer.  It's not fast by any 
means since its running under qemu but it works.

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