(was: Announcing the end of port CVS) no IPv6 mirrors for portsnap.FreeBSD.org

[Mark Martinec]

> For those reasons by February 28th 2013 the FreeBSD ports tree will
> no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS
> or CVSup will no longer available after that date. All users who use
> CVS or CVSup to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to
> portsnap(8) [1] or for users which need more control over their ports
> collection checkout use Subversion directly:

On an IPv6-only host (9.1-RC1) :

  # portsnap fetch
  Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
  Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed.
  No mirrors remaining, giving up.


csup works fine:

  # csup /etc/cvsup/ports
  Connected to 2001:15c0:ffff:f::9
  Updating collection ports-all/cvs
  Edit ports/MOVED
  Cleaning up ...


If portsnap wants to become a mainstream ports update channel,
it should be accessible over IPv6 too.

  Mark