Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:06 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <1233507786.61410.9.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home> References: <200901311153.58361.vehemens@verizon.net> <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home>
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On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 16:25 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) ----* > | In general when upgrading, you take your chances. If a port upgrade > | fails, you should fall back to what worked. > > So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in > -- and it disables my system. What is my way of action? Right -- > install the old packages, taken from an FTP site (is there a way to > get the previous "source", that is all the ports/*/*/Makefile files? > Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) > > When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install > new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I > can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most > X-dependent things. That sucks and will lead to a problem earlier or > later. Will combination of sysutils/portdowngrade and HOLD_PKGS variable in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf accomplish what you are trying to accomplish? -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
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