Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 6 Jun 2012, at 23:10, grenville armitage <garmitage at swin.edu.au> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich<erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com> wrote:
>    [..]
> 
>>> is my English really this bad?
>>> 
>>> From the handbook:
>>> 
>>> '. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.'
>> 
>> Your English is fine, but "being told to use tag=." != "tag=. is the
>> only tag that exists".
> 
> Another data point:
> 
> In Erich's defense, I'd say his interpretation is quite understandable.
> "...use only tag=. for the ports-* collections" also left me with the
> distinct impression (some many moons in the past) that there are no
> other meaningful (or safe) tags when csup'ing the Ports tree.
> 
> In 12 years of using FreeBSD I've never really sought out Erich's use
> case (viz. roll back /usr/ports to some past known-good version), I
> just assumed it wasn't possible. So this thread has taught at least one
> person (me) a new thing -- I never fully grokked that adding "date="
> to the supfile could achieve this desired result when csup'ing the
> Ports tree. Now I know, and I've changed the Subject line of this email
> in the hope it helps some future soul googling for the answer.
> 
> cheers,
> gja
> 


Actually does , flagging post for future reading.

Thanks guys.