The first step to using Perforce
is to obtain an account on the server. If you already have a
FreeBSD.org
account, log into freefall, run the following
command, and enter a password that is not the same as your FreeBSD
login or any other SSH passphrase:
%/usr/local/bin/p4newuser
Of course if you do not have a FreeBSD.org account, you
will need to coordinate with your sponsor.
An email will be sent to your FreeBSD address that contains the password you specified above in cleartext. Be sure to change the password once your Perforce account has been created!
The next step is to set the environment variables that
p4 needs, and verify that it can connect to
the server. The P4PORT variable is required to
be set for all operations, and specifies the appropriate
Perforce server to talk to. For the
FreeBSD project, set it like so:
%export P4PORT=perforce.freebsd.org:1666
Users with shell access on the FreeBSD.org cluster may
wish to tunnel the Perforce
client-server protocol via an SSH tunnel, in which case the
above string should be set to
localhost.
The FreeBSD server also requires that the P4USER
and P4PASSWD variables be set. Use the username
and password from above, like so:
%export P4USER=username%export P4PASSWD=password
Test that this works by running the following command:
%p4 info
This should return a list of information about the server.
If it does not, check that you have the P4PORT
variable set correctly.
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