Ports cvs deprecation warning

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Jan 10 16:50:22 UTC 2013


On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 10 January 2013 10:55, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how about
>> putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now?
>
> +1 please do that now.
>
> We should also send a message to announce at . Quite a few people are not
> aware of the pending removal of CVS services.
>
>> Mention that cvs mirrors will be going away and point to the portsnap and
>> svn update methods shown in the Handbook:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

Here's a first pass:

Index: ports/UPDATING
===================================================================
--- ports/UPDATING	(revision 310189)
+++ ports/UPDATING	(working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
  You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
  you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.

+20130110:
+  AFFECTS: everyone using csup(1) or net/cvsup to update the ports tree
+  AUTHOR: wblock at FreeBSD.org
+
+  The CVSup service is being phased out as of February 28, 2013.  Please
+  switch to one of the alternate update methods of portsnap(8) or
+  devel/subversion before that time.  See the Handbook for more
+  information:
+  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
+
  20130108:
    AFFECTS: users of devel/libvanessa_socket, mail/perdition
    AUTHOR: jhale at FreeBSD.org
-------------- next part --------------
Index: ports/UPDATING
===================================================================
--- ports/UPDATING	(revision 310189)
+++ ports/UPDATING	(working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
 You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
 you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
 
+20130110:
+  AFFECTS: everyone using csup(1) or net/cvsup to update the ports tree
+  AUTHOR: wblock at FreeBSD.org
+
+  The CVSup service is being phased out as of February 28, 2013.  Please
+  switch to one of the alternate update methods of portsnap(8) or
+  devel/subversion before that time.  See the Handbook for more
+  information:
+  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
+
 20130108:
   AFFECTS: users of devel/libvanessa_socket, mail/perdition
   AUTHOR: jhale at FreeBSD.org


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