On 9 September 2012 17:30, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert > <freebsd-ports-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >> Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey Bouquet >>> <jeffreybouq...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> I searched quite a bit upon this announcement to find csup > svn >>>> equivalent guides and found little applying to ports... >>>> hopefully they will appear prior to the changeover?, something >>>> easily learned? >>> >>> Good point. I found the handbook information adequate, but not as easy >>> to follow as it might be. >>> Guess I'll write one. It's really quite easy and much faster then csup. >>> >>> 1. Install devel/subversion >>> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random or >>> pick the one closer to you. >>> 3. Rename (mv) ports/distfiles and ports/packages out of /usr/ports >>> 4. rm -r /usr/ports/* >>> 5. svn co http://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports >>> OR >>> svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports >>> Ports will now be checked out of the repository and written to /usr/ports >>> 6. make -f /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex >>> 7. Move ports/distfiles and ports/packages back into /usr/ports. Since >>> these directories are not in the repository, they will be ignored by >>> updates. >>> 7. Update ports as needed with 'svn up /usr/ports' and 'make -f >>> /usr/ports/Makefile fetchindex' >>> This step does the equivalent of csup. >>> 8. Use the Subversion manual from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ to >>> learn how to other things with svn. Of particular interest is 'svn >>> info /usr/ports and setting up the .subversion file to do things like >>> ignore some directories. >>> If you add private ports to /usr/ports, they will be ignored by svn as >>> they don't exist in the repository. >>> >>> If anyone has suggestions on other things that belong in this list, >>> please let me know. >> >> I submitted some changes for the Handbook, but they really only covered >> the things that I thought were now Wrong. Your descriptions are >> certainly of higher quality. > > But I am still learning to count without a computer to help. 1, 2, 3, > 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8??? **Sigh**
I think you messed up because you didn't start from the basics: 0, 1, 2, 3 ... -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
