From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 11:02:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D502316A418 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lena@lena.kiev.ua) Received: from mx3.uatele.com (mx3.uatele.com [62.80.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D61713C46E for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lena@lena.kiev.ua) Received: from c.229.174.a516.dyn.adsl.cyfra.net ([62.80.174.229] helo=bedside.lena.kiev.ua) by mx3.uatele.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Ia8Bt-0004v3-CL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:02:57 +0300 Received: from bedside.lena.kiev.ua (localhost.lena.kiev.ua [127.0.0.1]) by bedside.lena.kiev.ua (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8P7Yncx001012 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from Lena@lena.kiev.ua) Received: (from lena@localhost) by bedside.lena.kiev.ua (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8P7YnoX001011 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from Lena@lena.kiev.ua) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:49 +0300 From: Lena@lena.kiev.ua To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070925073449.GA725@lena.kiev> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709221538.26733.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ... 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: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:02:58 -0000 On Sat, 22 Sep, Mel wrote: > > I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3 > > how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? > If you still have xorg-7.2 packages this is the fastest: > (cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make all-depends-list)|xargs pkg_delete -f > env PKGDIR=/path/to/packages/All pkg_add /path/to/packages/All/xorg-7.2.tbz Will following work right? cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make all-depends-list | xargs pkg_delete -f cd /usr/ports/packages/All fetch ftp://ftp2.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/xorg-7.2.tbz pkg_add -r xorg-7.2.tbz > Unfortunately since the xorg-modular joy[1] there's no good way to make > portupgrade ignore an upgrade via HOLD_PKGS, so you need to go back to manual > upgrading, deciding port by port what you can upgrade and don't use -R or -r > in case a dep on X is pulled in. Thanks, Lena