svn portdowngrade

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Thu Jun 12 00:05:14 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:59:33 +0200
Willy Offermans <Willy at Offermans.Rompen.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > On 06/11/14 16:13, Willy Offermans wrote:
> > >Dear FreeBSD friends,
> > >
> > >I use svn update /usr/ports to keep my ports collection up to date.
> > >
> > >Now, I have an issue with cups 1.7.2 and I like to downgrade to
> > >version 1.5.4. There is a port called portdowngrade.  Shall I use
> > >this to downgrade cups to 1.5.4, or is there another (advisable)
> > >way?
> > 
> > I used portdowngrade back in the cvsup days and it should still work
> > with svn; I think I even used it sometimes recently.
> > However I actually prefer to use svn directly.
> > E.g.
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/xxx/yyy
> > svn log
> > (choose revision REV you like)
> > svn upgrade -r REV
> > 
> >  bye
> > 	av.
> 
> I guess you mean update and __not__ upgrade in your last command.
> 
> Very nice!
> 
> Unfortunately:
> 
you must know a revision which contained a working cups-base.

Erich


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