From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 07:08:16 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 3F48616A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:08:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric.devolder@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2FE43D45 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:08:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric.devolder@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x4so221945nfb for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:08:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jNFXHSrjjnhXN5hqBR3rjhJcWpMb/Z8T5w2DqO9YnmblS0maf4RlCVYw9SOkHqZr20froxTd0lF3VVwTprEtzB5oHQXg+BsWnqEtWnUMJvmChpUi8N30/i6rZUwlcS5LFHXl9D08Gd9eOCZXpb0fxrBLnme1F11x3HZ77CNJZkM= Received: by 10.49.5.7 with SMTP id h7mr151963nfi; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.3.3 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 00:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:08:14 +0200 From: Eric Devolder To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <43452568.4010303@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <434458C0.7070503@mac.com> <43452568.4010303@mac.com> 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 Reply-To: Eric Devolder List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:08:16 -0000 I know this may seem weird to downgrade. Actually I'm working in the information security area. I want to setup an old (and vulnerable) wu-ftpd release, with specific compilation options. But I want it to be as close as possible to the freebsdb package. Thank you to everybody for supporting me on this! I could find valuable information there. and freebsd is really cool! 2005/10/6, Chuck Swiger : > 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 s= imply > 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 d= o so > is unclear; there have been a lot of security bugs found in various commo= n > 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 > >