Portsnap and new git ports tree

Kent Kuriyama kent.kuriyama at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 15:03:54 UTC 2021


Is the line:

                "host"       : "github.com",

Still retained?  When I execute:

gitup -v 2 ports

I don't see any output.  Thanks.

Kent

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 4:32 AM Daniel Stevenson <daniel at dstev.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 08:54, Daniel Stevenson <daniel at dstev.net>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 08:23, Arthur Barlow
> arthurbarlow at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Anyone know when portsnap will be able to work with the new ports tree
> on
> > > github?
> >
> > No, portsnap does not support Git. I would recommend using net/gitup
> from ports
> > instead and altering the "ports" section in /usr/local/etc/gitup.conf to
> look
> > like this:
> >
> > ....
> > "ports" : {
> >         "repository" : "ports.git",
> >         "branch" : "main",
> >         "target" : "/usr/ports",
> >         "ignores" : [
> >                 "distfiles",
> >                 "packages",
> >         ],
> > },
> > ....
>
> My bad, the "repository" line should read:
> ....
> "repository" : "/ports.git",
> ....
>
> Sorry for the confusion!
>
> --
> Daniel Stevenson
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