portsnap and the imminent demise of svn->cvs ports tree export

[Thomas Mueller]

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> We are on notice that the current ports tree will be soon no longer
> available via CVSup and friends.  General consumers of the FreeBSD ports
> tree are being encouraged to switch to portsnap.

> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2013-January/000049.html

> The presence of the file LASTCOMMIT.txt, and the content of the
> $FreeBSD$ lines, in a portsnap-generated ports tree indicate that
> portsnap sources its data from a CVS export of the tree.  Are there
> plans to migrate the portsnap source to the subversion tree before the
> end of February?

> # cd /usr/ports
> # make update
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Running portsnap
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> Updating from Sun Jan 20 16:00:15 PST 2013 to Sun Jan 20 16:05:39 PST 2013.
> Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
> Fetching 5 patches... done.
> Applying patches... done.
> Fetching 1 new ports or files... done.
> Removing old files and directories... done.
> Extracting new files:
> /usr/ports/LASTCOMMIT.txt
> /usr/ports/lang/basic256/
> /usr/ports/sysutils/less/
> /usr/ports/textproc/mifluz/
> /usr/ports/www/Makefile
> /usr/ports/www/p5-LWP-Protocol-PSGI/
> Building new INDEX files... done.
> # ident /usr/ports/www/Makefile
> /usr/ports/www/Makefile:
>      $FreeBSD: ports/www/Makefile,v 1.3300 2013/01/20 23:49:48 svnexp Exp $

> Thank you.

> --
> John Marshall

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Your date is ahead of what the headers of your message say:

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:01:05 +1100

Anyway, my latest LASTCOMMIT.txt shows


## SVN ## Exported commit - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/310745
## SVN ## CVS IS DEPRECATED: http://wiki.freebsd.org/CvsIsDeprecated
## SVN ## ------------------------------------------------------------------------
## SVN ## r310745 | araujo | 2013-01-21 03:39:17 +0000 (Mon, 21 Jan 2013) | 8 lines
## SVN ## Changed paths:
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/Makefile
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/distinfo
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/files/patch-Makefile
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/files/patch-libinstaller-syslxopt.c
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/pkg-descr
## SVN ##    M /head/sysutils/syslinux/pkg-plist
## SVN ## 
## SVN ## - Update to 5.00.
## SVN ## - Update MASTER_SITES.
## SVN ## - Add MAKE_JOBS_SAFE.
## SVN ## - Trim header.
## SVN ## 
## SVN ## PR:		ports/174180
## SVN ## Submitted by:	KATO Tsuguru <tkato432 at yahoo.com>
## SVN ## 
## SVN ## ------------------------------------------------------------------------


Tom