portsnap

[Heikki Lindholm]

On 20.07.2017 00:41, Frank Steinborn wrote:
> Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Then you can just 'svn up' periodically to pull in any updates.  Except
>> that svn(1) is not in the base system, so you'll need to install it from
>> ports... To solve this chicken-and-egg problem, just install svn using
>> packages:
>>
>>     # pkg install subversion
>>
>> The default pkg(8) configuration will use the latest quarterly branch.
> 
> Just for the record, there is svnlite in base, so you don't need the
> full svn per-se.

In which case, the chicken-and-egg problem will be reduced to getting 
ca_root_nss from ports, or giving up security.