Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:07:22 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to know which version of an apps available in various FreeBSD release? Message-ID: <AANLkTil4gRaj0SIWkILgGlkuzBaF0Ln1t1fMXffYsHL8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <AANLkTilZ7mc7KT9axYGSgS3K3HKr2voUFs4Z7aqeF2it@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006011431340.22303@tiktik.epipe.com> <20100602165019.GC2189@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote: > 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. > You can, but the tags have a different format from the source tags. Ports tags for releases are along the lines of RELEASE_X_Y_Z_SOMETHING (it's a big long string) or FREEBSD_X_Y_Z_RELEASE or something like that. They're not advertised, but they are there. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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