Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 12:19:02 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <20200807121902.5ceacf24@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <17c99d60-da68-a6be-8372-051c971339c7@FreeBSD.org> References: <b920d0e6-72d3-b37c-e57e-6d027292e8db@FreeBSD.org> <DE28B6E5-B144-4E2B-8274-702DAECF977E@grem.de> <17c99d60-da68-a6be-8372-051c971339c7@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 01:24:00 -0400
Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/5/20 6:17 PM, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> >
> >
> > What will be the process to bootstrap git?
> >
>
> There are several options:
Thanks for your response - ideally there would be a lean default way
users can rely on (hence my question, I probably should've injected the
word "standard" in there).
>
> 1. Install the git package provided by the FreeBSD project
In many cases this is the obvious choice, but in some scenarios not
possible.
> 2. Use svnlite to checkout a ports tree. (There will be git -> svn
> replication.
Will this be a long-term option? I would very much like that - not for
development, I'm more than happy that I can *finally* use git there in
the future - but to have a chance to get and update a ports tree on
hosts (and inside of jails etc.) without installing git and all its
dependencies:
(typical dependency output from some older host)
git-2.27.0:
p5-CGI-4.47
expat-2.2.8
p5-IO-Socket-SSL-2.068
p5-Authen-SASL-2.16_1
python37-3.7.7
perl5-5.30.3
p5-Error-0.17029
curl-7.70.0_1
pcre-8.44
p5-subversion-1.14.0
p5-Term-ReadKey-2.38_1
gettext-runtime-0.20.2
cvsps-2.1_2
This would also allow to write a simple/lean wrapper that can act as a
drop-in replacement for portsnap, as it doesn't require a special
bootstrap procedure and doesn't install any additional
packages/binaries on the system - therefore existing jail managers and
people's automation won't break.
> 3. Download a tar of the ports tree either from:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/ports/ports/
>
> or cgit.
Would work too, but relatively expensive. Also, how often would it be
updated?
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael Gmelin
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