From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 14:23:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8871065672 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71198FC21 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:23:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A498EBC08; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:23:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:22:44 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Simon Jolle" Message-Id: <20080609102244.b36133b0.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <648d054e0806090709l68f8948cmd168985f9ac2a379@mail.gmail.com> References: <648d054e0806090709l68f8948cmd168985f9ac2a379@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:23:26 -0000 In response to "Simon Jolle" : > Hi FreeBSD users > > Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng > 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production > environment) to test configuration changes. > > Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats the FreeBSD way to > install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? Looks through the CVS logs (you can use the web interface or Dan's freshports: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/syslog-ng/) Find the date of the version you want, then configure your supfile to grab the ports tree from that date. Something like: date=2004.08.28.10.00.00 should get what you want. When cvsup is done running, you'll be able to run make install from the syslog-ng directory to install that version ... assuming that distfile is still readily available. If it's not, you'll have to do some web searches until you find it manually. Some projects are really good about keeping old distfiles around, other are not. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com