svn - but smaller?

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:27:58 +0000 (UTC)
Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:09:58 +0300, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:06:47 -0800 Derek Kulinski <takeda at takeda.tk>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >You may:
> >> >1/ install subversion on some host/jail 2/ do svn export ( f.e.
> >> >svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9 stable_9)
> >> >3/ tar it 4/ on 'client' fetch(1)/scp/rsync tarball
> >> >
> >> >in that case you don't need svn on 'client', fetch and scp in
> >> >base :)
> >> 
> >> If you go through all of that why not just install the damn svn
> >> from ports?
> > 
> > I have svn installed on all my boxes (for src and configs) ;-)
> > 
> > 
> >> I think you don't understand the reason why people are asking for
> >> this. I personally experienced the need not long ago. I had
> >> stable/9 branch and wanted to downgrade to 9.0. The entire process
> >> went well until I rebooted the system, to see tons of errors in
> >> pretty much everything that was compiled from ports. Instead
> >> recompiling them from scratch I just decided to go ahead and
> >> upgrade to 9.1 which was not officially released yet.
> >> 
> > how in this case you would have helped availability lite-svn-client
> > on base ?
> > 
> >> And of course I could not perform svn sw because svn was broken
> >> too.
> > r232944 | lev | 2009-04-29 15:11:17 +0300 ...
> > (3) Add STATIC option to build only static binaries [2]
> > ...
> > 
> >> And since svn has tons of dependencies it took me nearly an hour to
> >> recompile them (portupgrade and Ruby were broken too).
> >> 
> >> 
> > that's why I don't use portupgrade for a long time;-)
> > use portmaster WTF
> 
> Portupgrade works fine for me. What's the problem with it?
> 

1) "portupgrade and Ruby were broken too" from original email (yep,
long time ago I faced with this too)
2) heavy depts(ruby)
3) don't know how it is now, but before it was supported weakly (large
thread in ports@ (?) year or two ago, IIRC)

-- 
wbr, tiger