Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:56:43 +0200 From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (was: Announcing the end of port CVS) no IPv6 mirrors for portsnap.FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <201210091456.43884.Mark.Martinec%2Bfreebsd@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <5049E9D2.2060209@FreeBSD.org> References: <5049E9D2.2060209@FreeBSD.org>
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> For those reasons by February 28th 2013 the FreeBSD ports tree will > no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS > or CVSup will no longer available after that date. All users who use > CVS or CVSup to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to > portsnap(8) [1] or for users which need more control over their ports > collection checkout use Subversion directly: On an IPv6-only host (9.1-RC1) : # portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. csup works fine: # csup /etc/cvsup/ports Connected to 2001:15c0:ffff:f::9 Updating collection ports-all/cvs Edit ports/MOVED Cleaning up ... If portsnap wants to become a mainstream ports update channel, it should be accessible over IPv6 too. Mark
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