Bug 206118

Summary: Porters handbook: setup details on testing with poudriere
Product: Documentation Reporter: oleksii.tsai
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description oleksii.tsai 2016-01-10 21:22:06 UTC 
In "9.5.5. Setting Up Ports Trees for Use with Poudriere" the handbook gives details on how to get ports tree for testing with poudriere. In particular, the following cmd is given:

# poudriere ports -c -m svn+https -p subversive

However, in order for this to succeed subversion has to be compiled with SERF option turned on. Otherwise it will fail with

svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'https://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head'

I think porters handbook should explicitly call out subversion with SERF support is required for svn operations.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-08-04 13:43:19 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: mat
Date: Fri Aug  4 13:42:33 UTC 2017
New revision: 50637
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50637

Log:
  Add a note about subversion needing SERF to access http(s).

  PR:		206118
  Reported by:	oleksii tsai gmail com
  Sponsored by:	Absolight, The FreeBSD Foundation

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing/chapter.xml
Comment 2 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-08-04 13:43:56 UTC 
I added a note saying that.