On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:
On 10 January 2013 10:55, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how about
putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now?
+1 please do that now.
We should also send a message to announce@. Quite a few people are not
aware of the pending removal of CVS services.
Mention that cvs mirrors will be going away and point to the portsnap and
svn update methods shown in the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
Here's a first pass:
Index: ports/UPDATING
===================================================================
--- ports/UPDATING (revision 310189)
+++ ports/UPDATING (working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
+20130110:
+ AFFECTS: everyone using csup(1) or net/cvsup to update the ports tree
+ AUTHOR: [email protected]
+
+ The CVSup service is being phased out as of February 28, 2013. Please
+ switch to one of the alternate update methods of portsnap(8) or
+ devel/subversion before that time. See the Handbook for more
+ information:
+ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
+
20130108:
AFFECTS: users of devel/libvanessa_socket, mail/perdition
AUTHOR: [email protected]
Index: ports/UPDATING
===================================================================
--- ports/UPDATING (revision 310189)
+++ ports/UPDATING (working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
+20130110:
+ AFFECTS: everyone using csup(1) or net/cvsup to update the ports tree
+ AUTHOR: [email protected]
+
+ The CVSup service is being phased out as of February 28, 2013. Please
+ switch to one of the alternate update methods of portsnap(8) or
+ devel/subversion before that time. See the Handbook for more
+ information:
+ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
+
20130108:
AFFECTS: users of devel/libvanessa_socket, mail/perdition
AUTHOR: [email protected]
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