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Date:      Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:06 -0500
From:      "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com>
To:        Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, vehemens <vehemens@verizon.net>
Subject:   Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Message-ID:  <1233507786.61410.9.camel@RabbitsDen>
In-Reply-To: <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home>
References:  <200901311153.58361.vehemens@verizon.net> <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home>

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On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 16:25 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) ----*
> | In general when upgrading, you take your chances.  If a port upgrade
> | fails, you should fall back to what worked.
> 
> So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in
> -- and it disables my system.  What is my way of action?  Right --
> install the old packages, taken from an FTP site (is there a way to
> get the previous "source", that is all the ports/*/*/Makefile files?
> Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?)
> 
> When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install
> new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I
> can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most
> X-dependent things.  That sucks and will lead to a problem earlier or
> later.
Will combination of sysutils/portdowngrade and HOLD_PKGS variable
in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf accomplish what you are trying to
accomplish?

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko




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