On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:23:23AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Are we supposed to be using cvs or svn to check out ports now? If cvs, I'm > getting prompted for a password which fails.
That depends on the nature of the repository you are using. What I do is maintain local private mirrors of the FreeBSD src, doc, and ports SVN repositories, and check out what I want to use via svn using those repositories. This does not require a password. It is unlikely that most folks will want (let alone need) to maintain such mirrors, but I find it easy and useful for what I do. Note that there has been an "end of the line" posted re: the current CVS exporter for ports: there is a date in the not-too-distant future when only SVN will be supported by the FreeBSD project (again, for ports). (The doc repo never had a CVS exporter after its conversion from CVS to SVN. AFAIK, there are no current plans to turn off the CVS exporter for the src repo -- but doc & src are off-topic for this list.) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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