Solved How to find my ports tree revision.

[Phishfry]

On a fresh version of FreeBSD 11.2, I can find out the revision used for FreeBSD base by uname -a
How can I tell the revision number of my ports tree?
I see nothing in portsnap and with a fresh install would svnlite be able to provide this?
I see an portsnap-INDEX file but it looks like md5 sigs..
/usr/ports/UPDATING only shows dates not revisions.

 

[SirDice]

If I recall correctly portsnap(8) doesn't provide the SVN info, so there's no way to figure it out. With an SVN ports tree it's easy of course: svnlite info /usr/ports.

 

[Phishfry]

What is this telling me? Does it know I modified my ports tree?

svn: E155007: '/usr/ports' is not a working copy

Or is this because it is stock11.2-RELEASE ports tree. I have not updated it while working on a deleted port.

 

[SirDice]

It means your /usr/ports isn't a SVN copy/repository.

 

[PMc]

On a fresh version of FreeBSD 11.2, I can find out the revision used for FreeBSD base by uname -a
How can I tell the revision number of my ports tree?

For the base, there is some code in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh that does fetch the revision from various possible VCS tools. It then gets compiled into the kernel and can be shown with uname.

For ports no such feature does exist.