From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 17:07:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135E4106567D for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E068FC23 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi7 with SMTP id 7so3297962pxi.13 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:07:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=RY4bKqYEDDiAkWFPzDDSR7oR8kPwRza4GOFBCAT6rl8=; b=g0mnMoi5Gp9Ru2ypaOqU6vmXwKmWbxn6gxan937pTndn8BnM6F+8zF2EQAUUAenH4s ZerrVce6nLKyAtPI0cu+URB6zoQhDP9ovqURCkefaqA2A7tgfCsZk72xtyiRi/JxMTMU Xt1FDcU3uRbulj4dLea9dEKH7VA0tjcQS9a/w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=su6BWN6FMoVmyXdePd1hb7cwIa7K4FoCLxoJwcLLlKpDcvwmlr7YXgErY5PDN8E21d Exal9uhb/O/zUIzqdXoDh9MZ3A5Un6G+Pajn+xbt+3I/jRN8mtBe2pmidgt4jPJF+Q9e DHigWhiTDxIyIanX8t8n+Jvm704tqc0+sCtiE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.105.3 with SMTP id h3mr6753381rvm.196.1275498442315; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.36.194 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: How to know which version of an apps available in various FreeBSD release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:07:24 -0000 On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jason wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:36:13PM +0000, Janne Snabb thus spake: > >> On Sat, 29 May 2010, Tao Wang wrote: >> >> I'm doing a survey about the availablilty of some packages in different >>> platform, including FreeBSD release. I want to know whether the package >>> is >>> existed in the specific FreeBSD release, and which version it is? >>> >> >> One suggestion: use csup to fetch ports-all and specify different >> releases as your tag in your supfile. Then you can do whatever you >> like with the different versions of the ports tree that you have >> fetched. >> > > It is my understanding that you can't fetch different versions of the ports > tree via csup based on release tags, but I could be mistaken. > You can, but the tags have a different format from the source tags. Ports tags for releases are along the lines of RELEASE_X_Y_Z_SOMETHING (it's a big long string) or FREEBSD_X_Y_Z_RELEASE or something like that. They're not advertised, but they are there. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com