Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:49 +0300 From: Lena@lena.kiev.ua To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ... Message-ID: <20070925073449.GA725@lena.kiev> In-Reply-To: <200709221538.26733.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Sat, 22 Sep, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > > I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3 > > how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? > If you still have xorg-7.2 packages this is the fastest: > (cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make all-depends-list)|xargs pkg_delete -f > env PKGDIR=/path/to/packages/All pkg_add /path/to/packages/All/xorg-7.2.tbz Will following work right? cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make all-depends-list | xargs pkg_delete -f cd /usr/ports/packages/All fetch ftp://ftp2.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/xorg-7.2.tbz pkg_add -r xorg-7.2.tbz > Unfortunately since the xorg-modular joy[1] there's no good way to make > portupgrade ignore an upgrade via HOLD_PKGS, so you need to go back to manual > upgrading, deciding port by port what you can upgrade and don't use -R or -r > in case a dep on X is pulled in. Thanks, Lena
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