When will subversion be ready for updating/upgrading src && ports?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:38:07 -0700
bsd-lists at hush.com wrote:

> Greetings,
>  Well after posting a couple of questions to the list regarding
> questions I had before migrating from (cv)sup to subversion, I took
> the leap:
> 
> mv /usr/src/ /usr/src.old/
> 
> mkdir /usr/src
> 
> mv /usr/ports/ /usr/ports.old/
> 
> mkdir /usr/ports
> 
> rm -fr /var/db/sup/*
> rm -fr /var/db/portsnap/*
> 
> svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8 /usr/src
> 
> svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> 
> I then performed a portmaster -a
> 
> which left me with a non-working X desktop.
> Turned out to be a problem with the Nvidia driver -- was 2.9.40, now
> 3.10.14. But loading it in loader.conf didn't create /dev/nvidia0,
> or /dev/nvidiactl To make a long story short, I attempted to update
> my src && ports, and try agaiin;
> 
> svn update svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> FAILED! I don't have the exact output
> So I tried:
> cd /usr/ports
> svn update
> Which replied:
> svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command
> svn: E155036: The working copy at '/usr/ports'
> is too old (format 29) to work with client version '1.8.0
> (r1490375)' (expects f ormat 31). You need to upgrade the working
> copy first.

you need a big pipe for svn. I also do not understand why a program is
not able to handle a format change automatically.
> 
> So I guess subversion isn't (yet) designed for this sort of stuff,
> which leaves me with a useless box. :(

What did I say a long time ago? It takes time to get this up but not a
cut-off date.

Erich
> 
> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
> 
> --chris
> 
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