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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