Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:48 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing an older version of a port Message-ID: <4ED8615C.1030100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK2QVQ5BHjwgM_4d%2BSxU1chGvQDSyEnszpcW8nBTfzzkCQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ED84C36.8090702@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <CA%2BtpaK2QVQ5BHjwgM_4d%2BSxU1chGvQDSyEnszpcW8nBTfzzkCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/02/11 14:01, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Da Rock > <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au > <mailto: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/ I already have a copy of the port required as a pkg, but how do I handle the dependencies?
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