Where to get older ports?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:38:04PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >  
> >>Does anyone know how/where one can obtain older ports?
> >>    
> >
> >From the CVS repository.
> >
> >  
> 
> Right, how would one do this? I'm not a cvs expert :) I actually 
> downloaded an older ports tar file, which had 5.8.7, and manually 
> patched it with freshports.org 's help to 5.8.7_2, but i got an error 
> when package tried to register:

The portdowngrade port may help.  Otherwise, I'm sure there are CVS
tutorials abounding online, and it's probably even discussed in the
handbook.

Kris
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