From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 13:23:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C3A16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:23:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3F343D48 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:23:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.71.31]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0INX00GLAX7RHR60@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:23:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:23:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: To: Eric Devolder Message-id: <43452568.4010303@mac.com> Organization: The Courts of Chaos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <434458C0.7070503@mac.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer? 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: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:23:52 -0000 Eric Devolder wrote: > Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe > just a side question: Can I "refresh" the files contained in > /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like > to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my > /usr/ports reflects only ports for 4.11. How can I replace them with > the 4.3 ones? If you have a /usr/ports tree corresponding to 4.3, I suppose you could simply copy that to a 4.11 system. Or as someone else mentioned, you could use CVS to obtain the ports tree as of a particular date. *Why* you would want to do so is unclear; there have been a lot of security bugs found in various common ports which have been fixed over the years. You could use sysutils/portdowngrade to go back to an older revision of a specific port. -- -Chuck