Maybe some of you do better at keeping track of scheduled events, or you're a bit more in touch with the process. Just a few moments ago I saw a tweet warning "heads up!"
Within the last few days I had noticed that it was 20-something
days since my last reboot or update, so I did an svn update of
/usr/src and rebuilt, reinstalled. How serendipitous that
was. According the the wiki page mentioned in the tweet, this
might not be possible later this month. The image below might
quickly become invalid but that was what I saw, note the 19th.
For some time FreeBSD has had svnlite in base which could be
used to obtain an updated /usr/src or /usr/ports but with the
switch to git I wonder if there will be git-lite or similar.
I would have to believe that poudriere would no longer be able to
use svn+https to get /usr/src or /usr/ports. So although the
capability would not be removed since anyone could still use svn
themselves for their private repo, it won't be for official
FreeBSD. Since I still have until December 18th for certain,
I will make sure to do one last update to my /usr/src. The
small bit of trivia would be that once upon a time FreeBSD switched
from CVS to SVN (2008) and they decided then that Git wasn't
capable. I cannot say whether Git changed or something else
did but its surely good enough now, but for how long? What
will be the successor to Git and will it be BSD or MIT or similarly
licensed? If removing GPL from base would prevent git from
being part of it, is there a non-GPL client much like svnlite which
could be included?
They keep this around for entertainment: https://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSWhy
I will have to investigate whether there is a way to do much of
the same things as I had with svn, because after so many years I
finally had everything figured out and the details put in one easy
to access place. I cannot imagine that all of the methods
below have no equivalent.
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