Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:01:19 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing an older version of a port Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2QVQ5BHjwgM_4d%2BSxU1chGvQDSyEnszpcW8nBTfzzkCQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock < freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > I've never actually done this before, so I'm a little shaky on the details. > > ffmpeg-0.7.7,1 doesn't work for my purposes: ffserver/ffmpeg aren't > communicating all that well- I'm still working out the details, but > essentially either or both are borked. I've been working with the ffmpeg > list to sort it out. > > FFmpeg-devel doesn't work either (for whatever reason- again communicating > upstream for support, although the maintainer might put opencv as broken in > that port), so I'm left with 0.7.6,1 which does appear to work at this > point. > > My question is this: how do I do this exactly? The dependencies will > require updating and could fail as well right? I tried a pkg_create of the > port and installing it where required, but it requires pciids-20111002 and > pciids-20111109 is installed (and probably required by other ports). How > can I install the older version without breaking things (at least too much- > I can fix things but there is usually always a limit)? > > My system is 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Sun Mar 13 08:45:42 > EST 2011 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDIA amd64. I have portupgrade and updated > to the latest ports (apparently that is the problem- although I've only > been fiddling with ffmpeg and it is not in production with my project task > per se). > http://www.oldports.org/data/ -- Adam Vande More
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