Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:29:16 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de> Cc: Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Downgrade a pkg Message-ID: <20141004162916.184709f7.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <542FFBA6.5020508@gmx.de> References: <542E6E3F.9040405@cloverinformatica.it> <542FFBA6.5020508@gmx.de>
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On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:52:38 +0200, lokadamus@gmx.de wrote: > In the past was portdowngrade used for such things. > http://cipitunk.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/ports-downgrade-in-freebsd/ > > It is in ports under ports-mgmt. > > Hope it is working. I assume it will not work anymore... :-( The last time I was using it was on FreeBSD 8, I needed to downgrade the xzgv image viewer to the last usable version (which was 0.8_9). It worked like that: # portdowngrade graphics/xzgv -s :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.tw.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs Then the desired version would be selected, and the port would be downgraded accordingly, so it could then be built from source. With portdowngrade, CVS has been used to obtain the old package data, and as the ports collection does not use CVS now, ... I don't know if the maintainer of portdowngrade had success bringing the port version access mechanism into sync with the ability of SVN to check out specific revisions. On the other hand, it should be possible to manually check out a specific version of the whole ports tree where the port version reflects the required older version number. This is mainly a SVN thing. Of course this involves building from source, as pkg, with its binary package approach, emphasizes the use of release or most recent packages. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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