svn - but smaller?

[Emanuel Haupt]

Oliver Brandmueller <ob at e-Gitt.NET> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in ancient times there was cvsup. cvsup was a PITA if you wanted (or 
> needed) to install it via ports, the only reasonable way was to use 
> pkg_add for that if you didn't want to pollute your system with 
> otherwise unneeded software.
> 
> Then there came csup. Small, in the base. You could install FreeBSD
> and the first task (for me and my environment) was often to simply
> csup to -STABLE (or a known good version of that) and to build an
> up-to-date and customised system. Like tayloring make.conf and
> src.conf to my needs and leave out most of the stuff I don't need on
> my system and in the kernel. Software and drivers that aren't there
> can't fail and won't be a security problem.
> 
> Times have been changing, we're now up to svn. svn is far more modern 
> than cvs and there are pretty good reasons to use it.
> 
> However, I either overlook something important or we are now at the 
> point we had with cvsup in the early days: The software I need to 
> (source-)update the system doens't come with the base and installing
> svn is a PITA. It pulls in a whole lot of dependencies, at the time
> being in FBSD-9.1-R I cannot even pkg_add -r subversion out of the
> box. And in the end I have my system polluted with software and
> libraries I don't really need in many cases for anything else.
> 
> So, is there some alternative small svn client, that leaves a 
> drastically smaller footprint probably somewhere around, probably
> even in the ports or is there anything I'm missing? The current
> situaion for me is a bit annoying. From the user's or admin's point
> of view at least. I didn't even see an option in svn to not build the
> server components, which would probably already help to make things
> smaller?
> 
> Thanx,
> 	Oliver

devel/subversion already has an option to build a static version. A
solution could be to create a stub port (devel/subversion-static)
similar to:

shells/bash-devel
shells/bash-static-devel

dns/ldns
dns/py-ldns

That way the package build cluster would create a package of the static
version which wouldn't pull in any runtime dependencies.

Emanuel