[HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

--- On Sun, 9/9/12, Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS
> To: "Kevin Oberman" <kob6558 at gmail.com>, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com>
> Cc: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Date: Sunday, September 9, 2012, 3:47 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 9/9/12, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
> > Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS
> > To: "Kevin Oberman" <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org>,
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> > Date: Sunday, September 9, 2012, 2:41 PM
> > On 9 September 2012 17:30, Kevin
> > Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert
> > > <freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org>
> > wrote:
> > >> Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> > writes:
> > >>
> > >>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey
> > Bouquet
> > >>> <jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>   I searched quite a bit
> > upon this announcement to find csup > svn
> equivalent
> > guides and found little applying to ports...
> > >>>> hopefully they will appear prior to
> the
> > changeover?, something
> > >>>> easily learned?
> > >>>
> > >>> Good point. I found the handbook
> information
> > adequate, but not as easy
> > >>> to follow as it might be.
> > >>> Guess I'll write one. It's really quite
> easy
> > and much faster then csup.
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Install devel/subversion
> > >>> 2. Select US east coast or US west as
> your
> > server. Pick at random or
> > >>> pick the one closer to you.
> > >>> 3. Rename (mv) ports/distfiles and
> > ports/packages out of /usr/ports
> > >>> 4. rm -r /usr/ports/*
> > >>> 5. svn co http://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> > >>>    OR
> > >>>    svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> > >>>    Ports will now be checked out of
> > the repository and written to /usr/ports
> > >>> 6. make -f /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex
> > >>> 7. Move ports/distfiles and ports/packages
> back
> > into /usr/ports. Since
> > >>> these directories are not in the
> repository,
> > they will be ignored by
> > >>> updates.
> > >>> 7. Update ports as needed with 'svn up
> > /usr/ports' and 'make -f
> > >>> /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex'
> > >>>    This step does the equivalent of
> > csup.
> > >>> 8. Use the Subversion manual from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ to
> > >>> learn how to other things with svn. Of
> > particular interest is 'svn
> > >>> info /usr/ports and setting up the
> .subversion
> > file to do things like
> > >>> ignore some directories.
> > >>> If you add private ports to /usr/ports,
> they
> > will be ignored by svn as
> > >>> they don't exist in the repository.
> > >>>
> > >>> If anyone has suggestions on other things
> that
> > belong in this list,
> > >>> please let me know.
> > >>
> > >> I submitted some changes for the Handbook, but
> they
> > really only covered
> > >> the things that I thought were now Wrong.
> Your
> > descriptions are
> > >> certainly of higher quality.
> > >
> > > But I am still learning to count without a
> computer to
> > help. 1, 2, 3,
> > > 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8??? **Sigh**
> > 
> > I think you messed up because you didn't start from
> the
> > basics:
> > 
> > 0, 1, 2, 3 ...
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Eitan Adler
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> > 
> 
> Initial attempts with svn[1] suggest one may skip step 4
> (making the
> svn command more like csup), if that is the case, anyone
> know of
> a workaround (easier method) than restoring
> /usr/ports/distfiles 
> and /usr/ports/packages from backup? Or skipping those
> steps
> altogether, svn does extra/unwanted work
> or?   
> [1] on only x11-themes, for example
> 
> J. Bouquet
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Sorry to reply to my own email.  These CLI worked...
mv /usr/ports/distfiles /usr/distfiles
mv /usr/ports/packages /usr/packages...
(Haven't gotten to the svn part yet...)

J. Bouquet