How to get Ports in FreeBSD 14.1

[JamesElstone]

Hi All,

What is the command when installing fresh base install of 14.1 do you use to get the Ports tree?

Or do you have to install a package first before getting the Ports tree on to a new install?

Kind of missed the boat a bit on recent discussions, and there seems to be a few third party packages that have been mentioned, but am looking for something in base userland...

Kr,
James

 

[malavon]

4.5.1. Installing the Ports Collection

 

[SirDice]

devel/git (the 'tiny' flavor will do, pkg install git-tiny, you don't actually need the 'full' git package)
net/gitup very simplistic and easy to use, has no dependencies.
devel/got never used it myself, can't comment on it.

 

[richardtoohey2]

Its not in the handbook, but for a while gitup was suggested, but I'm not sure if it is in favour any more? It's working well for me instead of portsnap.

It is a lot lighter than full-blown git, so if you want to try it, pkg install gitup and then gitup ports (You may need to use the -C create flag the first time you use it.)

 

[Buck]

Is it possible to use mirrors with gitup?

 

[Eric A. Borisch]

Once you’ve installed the git flavor of your choice:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/usr-ports-from-release-media-and-git.92250/post-660822

 

[T-Daemon]

Is it possible to use mirrors with gitup?

It's possible, see gitup.conf(5) host option.

 

[astyle]

To get started, I use this on a fresh system:

fetch https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/snapshot/ports-main.tar.gz

Extract that into /usr/ports, and you're good to go.

On 14.1-RELEASE, though, you might be in trouble if you run it inside a VirtualBox VM: Thread no-working-usr-bin-cc-after-upgrade.94091 ... 13.3-RELEASE is rock-solid as an alternative.

 

[T-Aoki]

What way to go/tool to use may vary with what you want to do.

If you want to simply update ports tree and just patiently wait someone to fix once some problem happens, gitup or the way astyle noted on comment #8 should be your best friend.
This is so-called "shallow clone" without revision logs and so on.

If the above is insufficient, for example, when some problem happens, you want to bisect the problematic commit and try to fix/workaround, so-called "deep clone" is needed. This case, any flavor of git or got would be needed.
Regarding the amounts of documents on Internet, maybe git would be preferrable (some pages would assume full git to be used).

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… when installing fresh base install of 14.1 …

The dvd image:

• does not require a DVD
• allows offline installation of a copy of the ports tree
• allows offline installation of packages for things such as KDE Plasma, GNOME, and drm-kmod.

These installations can be performed without exiting the installer. JamesElstone I'll let you have a link.

 

[JamesElstone]

Many thanks to Astyle for the fetch from the FreeBSD cgit repository approach, was my thoughts too.

I just seems odd to me that a BSD licensed OS needs to have a third party app to install its own ports tree or source tree; Maybe I have been using FreeBSD for too many decades comming from SVN/portsnap historically.

 

[covacat]

still better than when cvsup had modula 3 runtime deps

 

[Charlie_]

The developer of csup was the person who wrote the USB code for NetBSD.
We were told that the source was lost when the HDD crashed near completion.
Without it, cvsup might have been replaced earlier.