[HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Chris Rees]

On 11 September 2012 14:06, Frank Seltzer <frank_s at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>> If you want ot update all graphics ports, 'svn up
>> /usr/ports/graphics'. For just updating a single port, 'svn up
>> /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick'.
>>
>> But it appears that you chose to not follow the instructions. There is
>> a reason to delete the existing ports tree and do a checkout. If you
>> don't, every time something gets updated, it will generate a conflict
>> as the pre-existing ports tree is not recorded in the .svn file, so
>> svn sees the existing file as in conflict with the new one and refuses
>> to download the new one until the conflict is resolved.
>
>
> (Replying to a random post.)
>
> I haven't seen this asked so far so I'll do it. Is there a cookbook
> procedure to create a local svn server similar to the one you posted for a
> single machine update?
>
> f.e.:
>
> [1] create user, group and directory
> [2] cd /<somedir>
> [3] su <so and so>
> [4] svn ...
> etc.
>
> I have read the FreeBSD svn page and red-beans.com and neither has one or if
> they do I haven't been able to find it.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>

If you mean svnsync, that should do it for you...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/subversion-primer.html#AEN1299

You'll want to switch mirrors however.

Chris