Ports cvs deprecation warning

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 22:45:38 UTC 2013


On 01/12/13 16:31, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 	Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:55:50 -0700 (MST)
> 	From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
>
> 	Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how about
> 	putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now?
>
> 	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
>
> I probably missed something.
>
> Usually I do a minimal install,
> then pull the ports tree via csup,
> then install subversion, etc.
>
> If neither csup nor subversion are
> in base, then how do I get the ports
> tree in the first instance, if I
> forgot or intentionally didn't install
> ports as part of bsdinstall?
<snip>

portsnap?

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