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

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On 07/05/2013 at 8:55 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>
>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.

Grrrr...
Memory like yours, should be illegal. :)

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