[MacPorts] howto/SyncingWithSVN modified

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jun 16, 2015, at 2:20 PM, MacPorts <noreply at macports.org> wrote:

> Page "howto/SyncingWithSVN" was changed by rogerpack2005 at gmail.com
> Diff URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN?action=diff&version=14>
> Revision 14
> Comment: add early out option, minor textual changes
> Changes:
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> Index: howto/SyncingWithSVN
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> --- howto/SyncingWithSVN (version: 13)
> +++ howto/SyncingWithSVN (version: 14)
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> cd svn.macports.org/trunk/dports 
> svn co https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/ .
> }}}
> -If you prefer, the repository is also available via HTTP:
> +If you prefer, the repository is also available via HTTP, which may be easier to sync later.

Easier how, exactly?

> +At this point, if you don't care about future updates, you can manually build a portindex, like this:
> +
> +{{{
> +cd $prefix/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/
> +portindex
> +}}}
> +
> +and you're ready to go.  If you want to enable easy future updates, see step 3 "Configure Subversion" instead.
> +

Why would one check out the ports tree via Subversion if one wasn't going to update it later?

vq