On 8/6/20 6:05 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:11:10PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: >> >> >>> On 6. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Mathieu Arnold <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:17:37AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: >>>>> We welcome any constructive feedback. All input would be heard, and if >>>>> the plans need to be amended, we will come back to you with the amended >>>>> plan in a couple of weeks. This process will take some time and hopefully >>>>> won't be too disruptive to anyone's usual workflow. >>>> >>>> What will be the process to bootstrap git? >>> >>> pkg install git comes to mind. >>> >> >> I obviously meant bootstrapping without relying on binary packages (for >> multiple reasons) >_< >> >> E.g., pulling a tarball (from a github mirror or some other place) using >> “fetch” to populate an intermediate ports tree to build git/other >> dependencies. Shouldn’t be hard to do and easy to document. > > Well, you can download the head of the main branch, > https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports/snapshot/main.tar.gz and extract it > wherever you like. >
Is there a similar seed file for subversion snapshot, that one can download, extract, and "svn up" ? I was trying to "svn co" the ports tree, and it keeps dying in the middle of checkout every few minutes. Thanks! -- Ashish | GPG: F682CDCC39DC0FEAE11620B6C746CFA9E74FA4B0 “In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.” ("Mahatma Gandhi", "Hind Swaraj", 1908)
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