On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, N.J. Mann wrote:
In message <b8cefc405bcd2f7248f4c260a9148296.authentica...@ultimatedns.net>,
Chris H (bsd-li...@1command.com) wrote:
Greetings,
I've _finally_ managed to get a break in my work schedule that coincides with
a period where pointyhat isn't barfing on my ARCH. So I was able to (cv)sup src
&& ports.
Update the kernel successfully, and (after hours of work), managed to upgrade
ports. But
as (cv)sup was discontinued ~3 months ago, the ports aren't well synced, and
I'm now
working on a fairly wobbly system. I'm on RELENG_8 (8.4), and would like to sync my src
&&
ports via the (now defacto) subversion method. My previous experience is with
the client
meerly for the sake of obtaining the src, and building -- _not_ maintaining a
tree. I've
read what little is available in the handbook, and much of the Subversion book.
But there are
clearly different procedures/nuances where FreeBSD maintenance is concerned,
both in the
building of Subversion, and it's usage, where FreeBSD is concerned. The biggest
questions
in this regard, is;
1) what to do with my current INDEX-8 && INDEX-8.db files?
2) what of the "distfiles" directory
Do I simply copy them over, and "check them in"?
When I converted from csup to svn I did the following - which seems to
work. :-)
1. mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.old
2. mkdir /usr/ports
3. svn checkout into /usr/ports
4. mv /usr/ports.old/distfiles /usr/ports
When I do a svn update it ignores distfiles.
The index files, too. They can be (slowly) built with 'make index', or
downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or portmaster will fetch it
automatically.
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