On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:55:50 -0700 (MST) > From: Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> > > Given the upcoming cvs deprecation in a little over a month, how about > putting a reminder in /usr/ports/UPDATING now? > > Mention that cvs mirrors will be going away and point to the portsnap > and svn update methods shown in the Handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html > > I probably missed something. > > Usually I do a minimal install, > then pull the ports tree via csup, > then install subversion, etc. > > If neither csup nor subversion are > in base, then how do I get the ports > tree in the first instance, if I > forgot or intentionally didn't install > ports as part of bsdinstall? > You would need to download the subversion package for your release and install it. Then use it to get the latest ports trees,
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