can I install a port with a different (previous) version ?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Oct 25 07:41:08 PDT 2003


"Brunoc at quipo.it" <brunoc at quipo.it> writes:

> I periodically update the port collection.However,sometimes may
> happen that I need to install a different (previous) version of
> a port,for example when the current version fails to build.
> (This happened recently with the latest version of wine,a windows
> emulator).
> How can achieve this ?

cvsup allows you to specify a date, and it will retrieve the files
that were current on that date.  [supfile syntax is 
    date=[cc]yy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss
according to the manual]

For a single port, it might be easier to use the web interface.
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/


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