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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:09:43 -0800
From:      Douglas Thrift <douglaswth@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I download a deleted port from svnweb?
Message-ID:  <5101BF37.2070705@gmail.com>
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You could use svn to do this, something like:

svn co -r REVISION http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/CATEGORY/PORT

I hope this helps!
-- 
Douglas William Thrift
<douglaswth@gmail.com>
<http://douglasthrift.net/>;

On 1/24/2013 2:00 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to download a deleted port from svnweb (svnweb.freebsd.org),
> but it doesn't seem like ViewVC has the "Tarball download" enabled, so
> how do I get it? (downloading file by file is too cumbersome)
> Note: before people start getting all worked up; the reason I want to
> download this deleted port is to see if I can adapt / update it to a
> newer version of the program. There - no need for long tirades about
> the dangers of using deprecated ports now.
> 
> FWIW, I tried cvsweb too (it has "Download this directory in
> tarball"), but couldn't find out how to download a specific revision
> of a port. Is there a way?
> 



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