how to correct corrupted ports tree?

[C. P. Ghost]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files
>> like "distinfo" when portsnap thinks the port is up to date.
>
> You cansolve the problem of "few per-file mismatches" by
> using the traditional CVS approach of updating the ports
> tree. Only files not matching the current (on-server) content
> will be updated.

CVSup/csup is deprecated now and shouldn't be used anymore:

http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html

We should stop advertizing it as a way to update the ports tree.
svn or portsnap is the way to go now.

-cpghost.

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