Re: /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ?

  Bob,

On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 09:29:03AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote:
b> A fresh install of 
b> FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20250102-3d0a0dda3a7d-274510-memstick.img
b> set up without much difficulty and Xorg seems to work out of the box
b> on my Lenovo t400s. Both src and ports directories were installed by
b> bsdinstall, but an attempt to run git pull in the src directory failed
b> with "not a git repository", even though .git entries are present.
b> 
b> The most visible problem is lack of a /usr/src/.git directory. Can
b> the existing src and ports directories be salvaged?

Thanks a lot for bringing up this topic.

I have same observations: /usr/src and /usr/ports as is is an atavism.

I have already once tried this statement at a smaller audience - a
Russian-speaking telegram channel.  One meaningful feedback I got
is that people may occasionally build stuff from ports and also
some ports (e.g. drm-kmod, lsof) need /usr/src.  So in my opinion
these sources as is are useful for a very minor group of people,
those who aren't really developers/hackers, but for some reason
are not fully satisfied with binary packages.

I think that /usr/src and /usr/ports as part of FreeBSD release
distribution should just go away.  But we should provide a one liner
command to get them in a proper way (shallow git checkout).

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff