From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 2 05:28:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00471065676 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 05:28:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657C18FC16 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 05:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F014E5C24; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:40:43 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4ED8615C.1030100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:48 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing an older version of a port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:28:25 -0000 On 12/02/11 14:01, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock > > wrote: > > I've never actually done this before, so I'm a little shaky on the > details. > > ffmpeg-0.7.7,1 doesn't work for my purposes: ffserver/ffmpeg > aren't communicating all that well- I'm still working out the > details, but essentially either or both are borked. I've been > working with the ffmpeg list to sort it out. > > FFmpeg-devel doesn't work either (for whatever reason- again > communicating upstream for support, although the maintainer might > put opencv as broken in that port), so I'm left with 0.7.6,1 which > does appear to work at this point. > > My question is this: how do I do this exactly? The dependencies > will require updating and could fail as well right? I tried a > pkg_create of the port and installing it where required, but it > requires pciids-20111002 and pciids-20111109 is installed (and > probably required by other ports). How can I install the older > version without breaking things (at least too much- I can fix > things but there is usually always a limit)? > > My system is 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Sun Mar 13 > 08:45:42 EST 2011 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDIA amd64. I have > portupgrade and updated to the latest ports (apparently that is > the problem- although I've only been fiddling with ffmpeg and it > is not in production with my project task per se). > > > http://www.oldports.org/data/ I already have a copy of the port required as a pkg, but how do I handle the dependencies?