Keep FreeBSD up to date with subversion

The freebsd ports tree is quite big and sometimes you need just few packages. You can do that with subversion sparse checkouts.

pkg_add -r subversion

Checkout only immediate top level. The list of svn mirrors is here.

svn checkout --depth=immediates \
    http://svn0.eu.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports

Update tree on as needed basis:

cd /usr/ports
# common
svn up --set-depth=infinity Mk Templates Tools/scripts
# portmaster
svn up ports-mgmt/portmaster ports-mgmt/dialog4ports 
# python
svn up lang/python lang/python2 lang/python27 \
    devel/gettext converters/libiconv
# mercurial
svn up devel/mercurial
# python development
svn up devel/py-distribute py-setuptools \
    devel/py-virtualenv
# vim
svn up editors/vim
# subversion
svn up devel/subversion devel/libtool devel/apr1 \
    databases/db42 databases/gdbm databases/sqlite3 \
    textproc/expat2 www/serf

Consider configure /etc/make.conf as advised here and install packages:

make install clean -sC /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
portmaster lang/python27 devel/mercurial \
    devel/py-virtualenv editors/vim \
    devel/subversion

The above ports require only 12Mb in /usr/ports and next time ports update takes few seconds.