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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:08:59 +0300
From:      Lena@lena.kiev.ua
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Subject:   Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
Message-ID:  <20070924120859.GA722@lena.kiev>
In-Reply-To: <200709221538.26733.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:38:25 +0200
> From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

> > 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



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