From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 07:06:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF8A16A401 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:06:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz3.hyperreal.org [209.237.226.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95D4D13C4B7 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:06:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 14544 invoked from network); 16 May 2007 07:09:35 -0000 Received: from localhost.hyperreal.org (HELO pez2) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 16 May 2007 07:09:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pez2 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9542C5EB for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:06:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf X-X-Sender: brian@pez2 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: localhost.hyperreal.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Cc: Subject: ports on FreeBSD 4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:06:25 -0000 I realize the ports on RELENG_4 have been EOL'd, but I'm stuck on 4 for one system due to instability currently with the RELENG_6 box that will take its place. I'd like to be able to get a ports tree that represents the state of things just before support for 4.x was dropped. I thought I read that the tag for that was RELENG_4_EOL. I tried using that by going into /etc/make.conf and changing PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile and in /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile, a copy of /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile, I changed *default release=cvs tag=. to *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_EOL I did a "make update" in /usr/ports and it started to remove every file under /usr/ports. Yech. I had to go back to using /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and do a make update from /usr/src to get a /usr/ports tree back, though now of course that /usr/ports tree doesn't work for 4.x (it expects the new rc.subr stuff for example). I realize I'm treading on retired ground here... but any ideas? Brian