how to move 9.1 ports to HEAD?

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>         From bf1783 at googlemail.com Fri Feb  8 17:33:09 2013
>
>         > >  I don't think it's true.
>         > >  While still on 9.1 ports, the latest
>         > >  entry in UPDATING was (well I lost it now)
>         > >  about NOV-2012. I believe the revision was
>         > >  also substantially lower.
>         > >
>         > >  AS soon as I switched to head,
>         > >  the latest entry in UPDATING is from
>         > >  6-FEB-2013 and the revision is 311942.
>         > >
>         > >  Or maybe I misunderstood you?
>         >
>         >         You do.  :-)
>         >         The local _subversion repository_ (I know I'm using incorrent
>         > terminology) has a revision number: r######.  Which is the same
>         > across different versions of FreeBSD.
>         >         The individual ports _maintained within that repository_ have
>         > their individual ports numbers (e.g. libreoffice-3.6.5) ... which
>         > also does not vary with the FreeBSD release.  One can have
>         > libreoffice-3.6.5 and libreoffice 3.5.4 - but those are two separate
>         > ports and both work (or should) on 8.3, 9.1, and -CURRENT.  If a
>         > port has a minimum (or maximum) release of the OS it supports, there
>         > a mechanism for figuring that out and DTRT.
>         >
>         >         Or did I misunderstand you?
>
>         Yes, it is now branched, and he was probably using the equivalent of:
>
>         http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/RELENG_9_1_0/
>
>         rather than
>
>         http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/
>
>         By the way, Anton, you may wish to use https:// rather than svn:// --
>         slightly less efficient, but more secure.
>
> yes, got it, cool!
>
> root at zzz:/root # svn info /usr/ports/
> Path: /usr/ports
> Working Copy Root Path: /usr/ports
> URL: https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports/head
> Repository Root: https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports
> Repository UUID: 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5
> Revision: 311950
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: eadler
> Last Changed Rev: 311950
> Last Changed Date: 2013-02-08 19:18:40 +0000 (Fri, 08 Feb 2013)
>
> root at zzz:/root #
>
> Does svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head
> support https too?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
>
>

Just to repeat what others have tried to tell you. The ports tree is
NOT branched. The branches/RELENG_9_1_0 thing is a "tag" in subversion
terminology, a read only-snapshot of head from the time the release
was made that will never be updated.

-Kimmo