From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 16:52:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC03D106567E for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C978FC19 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6674A2E171; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:50:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:50:26 -0700 From: Jason To: Janne Snabb Message-ID: <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to know which version of an apps available in various FreeBSD release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:52:36 -0000 On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:36:13PM +0000, Janne Snabb thus spake: >On Sat, 29 May 2010, Tao Wang wrote: > >> I'm doing a survey about the availablilty of some packages in different >> platform, including FreeBSD release. I want to know whether the package is >> existed in the specific FreeBSD release, and which version it is? > >One suggestion: use csup to fetch ports-all and specify different >releases as your tag in your supfile. Then you can do whatever you >like with the different versions of the ports tree that you have >fetched. It is my understanding that you can't fetch different versions of the ports tree via csup based on release tags, but I could be mistaken. > >See: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > >-- >Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications >snabb@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >