Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:50:26 -0700 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to know which version of an apps available in various FreeBSD release? Message-ID: <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006011431340.22303@tiktik.epipe.com> References: <AANLkTilZ7mc7KT9axYGSgS3K3HKr2voUFs4Z7aqeF2it@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006011431340.22303@tiktik.epipe.com>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:36:13PM +0000, Janne Snabb thus spake: >On Sat, 29 May 2010, Tao Wang wrote: > >> I'm doing a survey about the availablilty of some packages in different >> platform, including FreeBSD release. I want to know whether the package is >> existed in the specific FreeBSD release, and which version it is? > >One suggestion: use csup to fetch ports-all and specify different >releases as your tag in your supfile. Then you can do whatever you >like with the different versions of the ports tree that you have >fetched. It is my understanding that you can't fetch different versions of the ports tree via csup based on release tags, but I could be mistaken. > >See: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > >-- >Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications >snabb@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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