When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

[Greg Larkin]

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On 11/27/12 4:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 26 November 2012 21:15, jb <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tim Daneliuk <tundra <at> tundraware.com> writes:
>> 
>>> ... One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date
>>> might not be simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ...
>> 
>> As managed by portsnap: $ du -hs /usr/ports/ 850M    /usr/ports/
>> 
>> As managed by svn (it took much longer to checkout/download it by
>> comparison): $ du -hs /usr/local/ports/ 1.4G
>> /usr/local/ports/ $ du -hs /usr/local/ports/.svn/ 702M
>> /usr/local/ports/.svn/
>> 
>> One thing about svn is that it is a developer's tool, with its
>> own commands set (that should never be mixed with UNIX commands
>> w/r to dir/file manipulation), and that should not be expected to
>> be learned by non-devs.
>> 
>> For that reasons alone the portsnap-managed ports repo is more
>> generic, flexible to be handled by user and add-on
>> apps/utilities, looks like more efficient without that svn
>> overhead resulting from its requirements and characteristics as a
>> source control system.
>> 
>> But, svn offers to a user a unique view into ports repo, e.g.
>> history, logs, info, attributes, etc.
>> 
>> jb
>> 
> 
> While we're on the binary vs SVN topic, I'd like to point out I'm 
> *actually running out of inodes* on a virtualized machine (we use 
> these a lot for our dev and preproduction environments) with 5gb
> of space, when checking out the ports tree.
> 
> Of course 5gb is quite small but then, this was installed a while
> back.
> 
> The transition to SVN means I'm going to have to reinstall these
> firewalls. There are a lot of them it's going to be a major pain.
> 
> 
> idk, I'm loathe to use portsnap, I liked CSup just fine.

Unless you plan to use svn commands other than checkout in your ports
tree, I would suggest switching to "svn export" or perhaps the
svn-export script (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/svn-export/) to
fetch your ports tree.

The export command will not create the .svn metadata directory and
will save on inode usage.  Of course, you could also create a new
virtual disk for /usr/ports and tune it with more inodes if you'd
rather use svn checkout.

Hope that helps,
Greg

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