From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 00:17:40 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 9C10C106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D9F8FC0A for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:17:40 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LMT001U625FO140@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-06-14_08:2011-06-15, 2011-06-14, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1106140222 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <20110615000951.GD5630@external.screwed.box> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:39 -0700 Message-id: References: <20110615000951.GD5630@external.screwed.box> To: Peter Vereshagin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap? 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: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:17:40 -0000 On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! > > How can I extract an 'old' snapshot from portsnap database? > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetched previously? As far as I can tell, you can't. > Suppose I need the particular port or the whole tree as of the specified date > and time? Or, if I need the particular version of the specified port and optionally the > ports tree that corresponds it? Update the ports tree using cvs/csup, which do support updating to a particular date. Regards, -- -Chuck