downgrading to an earlier version of the same port

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:27:10 -0500
Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 September 2007 19:37:10 Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > On my machine it appears that jdk-1.5.0.12,1 is broken and I want to
> > downgrade to a previous cvsup of the same port (I don't know the
> > exact tag but it is the one using patch set 4)... how do I go about
> > doing this?
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> i do this from time to time, byjust making an edit to my
> ports-supfile. normally, there is a line like this in your
> ports-supfile:
> 

It's a lot easier to use portdowngrade.