Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:52:13 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd> Cc: Andrei Brezan <andrei693@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which ports tree through svn? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301091250530.4481@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <17F38D0B-75C0-45C5-9309-F49CBD57679D@my.gd> References: <50ED8195.6030503@gmail.com> <17F38D0B-75C0-45C5-9309-F49CBD57679D@my.gd>
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Andrei Brezan <andrei693@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> I'm using: >> FreeBSD myhost.mydomain.com 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 02:52:29 UTC 2012 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >> >> I want/need to use svn for my ports tree mainly because I need to downgrade ports. There is portdowngrade in the ports tree but that relies on cvs which is no longer available. The only way that I'm able to do this now is with svn log and svn up -r to the revision needed so I get the version that I need in the port. >> >> My problem is what do i need to checkout in the first place for 9.0-RELEASE? >> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports or svn co snv://svn.freebsd.org/tags/RELEASE_9_0_0 /usr/ports? >> >> The first one seems to be up to date but the latter has for eg apache version 2.2.21 from 2011; I presume from the portfreeze before 9 was released. >> >> Maybe there are any means to downgrade ports while using portsnap that I'm not aware of. >> >> Thank you, >> Andrei > > > http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_0_0/ > > > Note that, unless I'm mistaken, this branch is frozen so you won't be getting any update. Might as well use the real ports tree, the first option shown above, since it also has the previous history.
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