[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Ashish SHUKLA]

On 8/6/20 6:05 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:11:10PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 6. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:17:37AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>>>> We welcome any constructive feedback. All input would be heard, and if the plans need to be amended, we will come back to you with the amended plan in a couple of weeks. This process will take some time and hopefully won't be too disruptive to anyone's usual workflow.
>>>>
>>>> What will be the process to bootstrap git?
>>>
>>> pkg install git comes to mind.
>>>
>>
>> I obviously meant bootstrapping without relying on binary packages (for multiple reasons) >_<
>>
>> E.g., pulling a tarball (from a github mirror or some other place) using “fetch” to populate an intermediate ports tree to build git/other dependencies. Shouldn’t be hard to do and easy to document.
> 
> Well, you can download the head of the main branch,
> https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports/snapshot/main.tar.gz and extract it
> wherever you like.
> 

Is there a similar seed file for subversion snapshot, that one can
download, extract, and "svn up" ?

I was trying to "svn co" the ports tree, and it keeps dying in the
middle of checkout every few minutes.

Thanks!
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