What is the preferred method for updating ports now?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 11, 2014 at 3:10:07 PM -0700 Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> 
wrote:

> 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,

Thanks.  That was exactly the problem.

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