svn && ports, or the hen && egg

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:50:27PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias
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First svn is in base named svnlite since 10, then the recommanded way to get the
ports tree is to use portsnap which is also in base.

regards,
Bapt
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