git transition plan for base/user/cperciva/freebsd-update-build

[Alan Somers]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 1:28 PM Juraj Lutter <otis at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 29 Jan 2021, at 21:12, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > What is the plan to transition the
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/cperciva/freebsd-update-build/
> code?
> > It's not really a branch of src; it's more like an independent project.
> > Will it be getting its own repository?
>
> This is a good question. The other question is if it could be simplified
> somehow,
> for use cases where users do not want/need patches and only want to build
> updates for
> their running systems for regular maintenance.
>

For users who don't need patches?  Do you mean as a substitute for the old:

$ cd /usr/src
$ svn up
$ make buildworld
$ make buildkernel

Or by "don't need patches", do you mean building updates based on tracking
stable/12 instead of downloading the security advisory patches?  I don't
think the former makes sense.  For just one system, building world and
kernel by hand is much easier than using freebsd-update-build.
-Alan