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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:59:22 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4 EOL ports tree
Message-ID:  <20070419035922.GA49155@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <BA789D08-A6EB-4F95-AA25-3D10A1BB33F3@ish.com.au>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:35:21AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
> On 19/04/2007, at 9:05 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> 
> >RELEASE_4_EOL is the tag where the 4.X support was not yet removed.  
> >We only started to remove the 4.X support after the tag, thus you  
> >should still be able to build ports from the tag on 4.X.
> 
> 
> My installations use portsnap and so automatically went past the  
> correct tag. Is there a way to get portsnap to downgrade the ports  
> tree now to 4_EOL or is the best way to install cvsup and do it?

See the cvsup faq for how to "adopt" an existing ports tree.  Or just
delete and check out from scratch if you can't get this to work for
you :)

Kris



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