On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:28:23AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 03/04/21 02:24, The Doctor wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: > >> On 03/04/21 01:35, The Doctor wrote: > >>> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:35:57AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: > >>>> On 02/04/21 23:16, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> On 02/04/21 15:44, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > >>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > >>>>>>>> Hi! > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of > >>>>>>>>> base > >>>>>>>>> or ports are moving to git? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Yes: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update > >>>>>>> the ports? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> The same questions keep being asked even if replied to multiple times. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> you can use git with the official git repo (once it will be available, > >>>>>> migration is still in progress), or reference a mirror on github or > >>>>>> gitlab. Some documentation about how to do this is available at [1]. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If I understand correctly documentation will also be added to the > >>>>>> handbook once migration is done. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Git is a little complicated but a lot of documentation is available on > >>>>>> the internet. search engines are you friends. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If you only want to keep /usr/ports updated the easiest tool to achieve > >>>>>> that is gitup available in ports at net/gitup. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I reiterate, migration is still in progress, the latest available > >>>>>> snapshot of the ports tree (at present read only) is via subversion. > >>>>>> once migration is done the official git repo and mirrors will be > >>>>>> available. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> There isn't much more to be sail until the migration is done. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Git is ready, > >>>>> > >>>>> but I use pkg/portsnap . > >>>>> > >>>>> How does that affect us? > >>>> > >>>> AFAIK you can't use it anymore. Use gitup. It's almost a drop-in > >>>> replacement. > >>>> > >>> > >>> How do we use gitup in this scenario? > >> > >> What scenario? > >> > >> Please install gitup and read it's man page, it's straight forward. > >> > >> -- > >> Guido Falsi <[email protected]> > > > > > > Results: > > > > gitup -v 1 ports > > # Host: github.com > > # Port: 443 > > # Repository: /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git > > # Target: /usr/ports > > gitup: get_commit_details: refs/heads/master doesn't exist in > > /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git: Invalid argument > > > > Thew migration is still in progress, so I guess the repository is in an > unstable state. Try again once the migration is done. > > -- > Guido Falsi <[email protected]>
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