From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 07:41:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434D616A4BF; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD2143FB1; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B70B83B05; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 10:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "Brunoc@quipo.it" References: <000901c39a06$17115900$cf055e3e@computer> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 25 Oct 2003 10:41:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <000901c39a06$17115900$cf055e3e@computer> Message-ID: <44ismds7lp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can I install a port with a different (previous) version ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:41:08 -0000 "Brunoc@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/