From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 20:50: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564F337B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from scottro11.homeunix.net (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id g0N4nYfZ000308 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:49:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:58:40 -0500 From: Scott Robbins To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editing a makefile in ports Message-Id: <20020122235840.6f230191.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020122222755.2544b37e.stephen@shepherdbusinessgroup.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020121202919.00c1bec0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> <20020122222755.2544b37e.stephen@shepherdbusinessgroup.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:33:30 -0500 > Scott wrote: > > > I don't know enough about coding or even scripting, I fear, to know if this > > is an inane question or not. > > > > (Concerning x11/XFree86-4 and downgrading from 4.2.0 to 4.1) > > If I simply edit the line in the > > Makefile that says PORTVERSION = 4.2.0 and change it to 4.1.0 will that > > solve my problem, or will there then be various other conflicts that I > > don't know enough to see. To answer my own question---I see that ports has already been downgraded to 4.1.x--a quick perusal of the ports mailing list archives indicates that there have been enough problems with it so that it's felt it doesn't yet belong on STABLE. (And thank a couple of people that took the time to send me private mails informing me of that) Also, I realized afterwards, that as there are MD5 sums involved, it would have been more complex than simply changing the version number in the Makefile Thanks Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message