What is the preferred method for updating ports now?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 11, 2014 at 7:41:42 PM +0200 olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:>
> On 2014-06-11 18:20, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I used to use cvsup.  Then I switched to portsnap.  Do I now need to
>> switch to svn?
>
>> If so, is there a way to use svn to only update those ports that have
>> changed since the last update?  I've been using svn for a while to work
>> on port updates.  I know how to fetch the entire port infrastructure but
>> not how to only update those ports that have changed.  Portsnap can be
>> automated to keep ports up to date.  Is there a similar utility that
>> uses svn instead?
>
> simply go to the root of your portstree and fire the command `svn up',
> but watch the output for conflicts marked with a capital 'C'. Running
> from time to time `svn cleanup' will keep remove dead metadata from the
> .svn directory.
>

I did this and got the following:

/usr/ports# svn up
Skipped '.'
Summary of conflicts:
  Skipped paths: 1

So I did this:

/usr/ports# svn up svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/HEAD/
svn: E205000: Try 'svn help update' for more information
svn: E205000: 'svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/HEAD' is not a local path
[root at mail /usr/ports]# svn up svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/
svn: E205000: Try 'svn help update' for more information
svn: E205000: 'svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports' is not a local path

Then I did this:

/usr/ports]# svn status
svn: warning: W155007: '/usr/ports' is not a working copy

Hmm.....so I thought maybe I had to co the ports first:

# svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/

After that finished, I did this:

/usr/ports]# svn up
Skipped '.'
Summary of conflicts:
  Skipped paths: 1

So then I did this:

/usr/ports]# svn status
svn: warning: W155007: '/usr/ports' is not a working copy

OK, now I'm really confused.  It seems that I've done nothing at all.

So what am I doing wrong?

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