From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 2 04:01:21 2011 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 78A0F106566B for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 04:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B93C8FC18 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 04:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkat2 with SMTP id t2so3750819bka.13 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:01:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=4Ff9Ilx5sQAmD9WoEVeFjAO/n5oPZHGZe6PqnQupHXk=; b=EyS7g6KePFJ07gAZaLFNkbntUMC5sVQZelHHSk7xZZsSXElQ81zKNa/KI3xzOZMPOH li9O/U+QwDONtWMFeFT2UKS8kz4V5eO70IMGwSijX6VSiydOeyQ6f7GQs28rPcTdCY2T zTmxUBfjPCBhigDny2THG6GeDJKqQNBG+l4gw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.148.77 with SMTP id o13mr2648644bkv.97.1322798479617; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.68.208 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:01:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:01:19 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Da Rock Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing an older version of a port 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: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:01:21 -0000 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock < freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > I've never actually done this before, so I'm a little shaky on the details. > > ffmpeg-0.7.7,1 doesn't work for my purposes: ffserver/ffmpeg aren't > communicating all that well- I'm still working out the details, but > essentially either or both are borked. I've been working with the ffmpeg > list to sort it out. > > FFmpeg-devel doesn't work either (for whatever reason- again communicating > upstream for support, although the maintainer might put opencv as broken in > that port), so I'm left with 0.7.6,1 which does appear to work at this > point. > > My question is this: how do I do this exactly? The dependencies will > require updating and could fail as well right? I tried a pkg_create of the > port and installing it where required, but it requires pciids-20111002 and > pciids-20111109 is installed (and probably required by other ports). How > can I install the older version without breaking things (at least too much- > I can fix things but there is usually always a limit)? > > My system is 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Sun Mar 13 08:45:42 > EST 2011 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDIA amd64. I have portupgrade and updated > to the latest ports (apparently that is the problem- although I've only > been fiddling with ffmpeg and it is not in production with my project task > per se). > http://www.oldports.org/data/ -- Adam Vande More