What is the preferred method for updating ports now?

[Charles Swiger]

On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> /usr/ports]# svn status
> svn: warning: W155007: '/usr/ports' is not a working copy
> 
> Hmm.....so I thought maybe I had to co the ports first:
> 
> # svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/

That checks out the ports tree under a workarea named 'head' in your local directory.

  svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/ /usr/ports

...would checkout a workarea under /usr/ports.

> After that finished, I did this:
> 
> /usr/ports]# svn up
> Skipped '.'
> Summary of conflicts:
> Skipped paths: 1
> 
> So then I did this:
> 
> /usr/ports]# svn status
> svn: warning: W155007: '/usr/ports' is not a working copy
> 
> OK, now I'm really confused.  It seems that I've done nothing at all.
> 
> So what am I doing wrong?

Try:

mv /usr/ports /usr/ports_20140611
mv head /usr/ports
cd /usr/ports
svn status
svn up

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck