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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:39:56 -0400
From:      "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To:        Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rolling back the ports tree
Message-ID:  <3B2F643C.1050505@lmc.ericsson.se>
References:  <20010619152931.A73968@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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You'll probably be able to do it with:

mv /usr/ports /usr/ports-new
cvsup ports-supfile

A.

Rasputin wrote:

> Hi, quick question:
> 
> does anyone know how to roll back the ports tree to a particular date?
> 
> Actually, I want the version of two ports from around a month ago
> (Glide and Xfree86-4) so I can get DRI working on a Voodoo 3.
> 
> I tried using the usual date tag
> (ignoring the advice in the sample supfile)
> and, sure enough, cvsup merrily tw*tted the whole of /usr/ports
> 
> (although it doesn't seem to follow symlinks, luckily enough)
> 
> If anyone knows, please tell me the secret.
> (and please cc me in to any reply since I'm 
>  not tracking the mailing lists this week.)
> 
> Cheers.

-- 
Antoine Beaupré
LMC/K TCM team

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