portdowngrade(CVS) deprecated -> alternative for portsnap(8) usage

[Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.]

Doesn't the old advice of adding, something like

REFUSE audio/oss

to /etc/portsnap.conf still work?

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM, <rank1seeker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=203241
> > > >
> > > > Will it be transformed to checkout via SVN, only origins we
> > > > need, or
> > will
> > > > it be dumped from ports tree as obsolete.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I rewrote it in sh, quite simply because I thought that c++ was
> > > insane
> > > for such simple code.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid it doesn't quite have the same behaviour, but it's
> > > still
> > > very easy to use.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if there's something you desperately miss
> > > about the
> > > old version.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your effort!
> >
> > # portdowngrade audio/oss
> >     Listed all revisions
> > # portdowngrade audio/oss r300895
> >     I've picked one from the past
> >
> > However:
> > # portsnap fetch update
> >     Is blind to this change and fails to update it back, to it's
> >     latest
> > version
> >
> > portdowngrade should also alter/update portsnap's DB
> >
> >
> > Domagoj Smolčić
> 
> 
> Portdowngrade always warned that portsnap would always overwrite any
> altering of the origin, which I believe is still the best path. If
> anything
> a warning should be displayed, if not already.
> 
> -jgh
> 

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