svn && ports, or the hen && egg

Wed Dec 18 21:04:22 UTC 2013

On 18 Dec 2013, at 21:50, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> 
> As ports are now for some time are to be pulled out via SVN (and not
> CVS) and the svn client is only in the ports tree and not in the base
> system, how is this thought to work in a clean way, without dusting the
> system before with some binary packages, only based on base system and
> sources?

Use portsnap, or if you use 10.x or later, the base system has svnlite.

-Dimitry

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