portdowngrade and meta ports

[Chris Rees]

On 24 May 2012 19:43, Lars Eighner <portsuser at larseighner.com> wrote:
>
> I *must* revert xorg to a point at which changing ttys works.
>
> portdowngrade does not seem to work with metaports -- apparently it does not
> revert the dependencies - which is what a metaport is all about. So when the
> metaport is built, it may put it's own (old) version number on the port, but
> actually has not changed anything.
>
> Any suggestion on how to get xorg back and how far back it was that
> switching ttys worked.

Easiest way is to just checkout an old ports tree.  This will get you
one two hours before xorg-new was committed.

Delete all your xorg- related ports:

# pkg_delete -x xorg xf86-

(and any other patterns I've forgotten)

 # <<EOF cat > supfile

*default host=ftp.FreeBSD.org
*default prefix=/tmp/beforenewxorg
*default base=/tmp/beforenewxorg
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix

ports-all date=2012.04.21.15.00.00
EOF

# csup supfile
# mv /etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf.bak && echo
"PORTSDIR=/tmp/beforenewxorg/ports"
# cd /tmp/beforenewxorg/ports/

Then reinstall the xorg port.  Make sure your portupgrade/portmaster
tools ignore them for updating purposes-- you can safely rm -rf
/tmp/beforenewxorg.

Feel free to subsitute /tmp if you don't have enough space (you'll
need ~5G at least to be safe, or redefine WRKDIRPREFIX).

Hope that helps,

Chris