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Subject: Re: Using Perl 5.8.8
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> rihad wrote:
> 
>> # portdowngrade -s:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs 
>> lang/perl5.8
>>
>> portdowngrade 0.6 by Heiner Eichmann
>> Please note, that nothing is changed in the ports tree
>> unless it is explicitly permitted in step 6!
>>
>> Seeking port lang/perl5.8 ... not found
>> #
> 
> Hmmm --- try it like this.  I've no idea why trying to downgrade the port
> using the name lang/perl5.8 or even lang/perl5 doesn't work.  Seems fine
> if you say lang/perl though.
> 
> # portdowngrade -s anoncvs@anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs lang/perl
> 
Thanks a lot, not only this, but the :pserver: part was also redundant 
in this case, despite being suggested by the portdowngrade man page.

Let's see how the install goes.