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Downloading source code history (Failed) for FreeBSD Ports
This is not the first time I tried registering FreeBSD ports source code. No luck so far. And even with different CVS servers.
Step 1 of 3: Downloading source code history (Failed)
Is there a way to get a more verbose output?
Thanks.
Hi Herve,
I'm sorry to say that this download fails because we are intentionally stopping it.
This is one of a half-dozen repositories in the wild that are simply too large and too old to be processed by Ohloh's method.
The FreeBSD ports repository has over 200,000 revisions, and each revision is taking about an hour for Ohloh to process. At that rate, it's going to be years before Ohloh finishes.
Most of this time is spent with poor CVS struggling to generate the ancient historical snapshots that Ohloh requires.
We may have better luck if this repository is converted from CVS into a newer, faster format, although I dare say that such a large conversion would be easily undertaken.
Thanks,
Robin
Okay. Good to know.
I know some of our developpers did manage to get a Git mirror of the ports tree. If Git is fine for you, I'll try that way.
Oh, and thanks for the quick reply BTW :)
Because FreeBSD recently moved to subversion, there is probably SVN version of ports tree.
Unfortunately, only the src
(kernel and base) tree switched to SVN.