From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 21:43:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E60106564A for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:43:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209D8FC0A for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so275138bkv.13 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 14:43:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/IIDxJhch/8it81bRnzVs03RQkNQ9dIei63KMOsO62s=; b=DpZJKj5tuPq4YNe8DjNmgCuJRpMurBiSCX/gwYdIg/ejMtJX3Oo1FMZ9iLDjH31udS yrieE5WP1RF31+PuiVuEaC2NszKbOxJ6oMHq/FKkMTyvDxsGPd/Ivgdp8RsSozNlCn2N WHz3ZQfY+nd2Y+PznSrAx7NpuTC5wsQuvPaC8W32Bv5d+5exsskqUM0y+YjpmYkevsro YPpt3IeMjbyYoY0gmmFWjo4LQ56u3Wr8GtF6YsBf/c8YNrnLh0n5h/HDGi+h2b/plFQP Yp0yoHvVZMq84Zk63j3Twb3nJYWKWC7LfI+In9BKAAltzlAYteJX4RCqhLfM+tzl1JOj /T5g== Received: by 10.204.156.69 with SMTP id v5mr376161bkw.133.1337895819263; Thu, 24 May 2012 14:43:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.171.138 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2012 14:43:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Rees Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:43:08 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AT7u2VoqmuzQTMFg-dtPhDWe3pU Message-ID: To: Lars Eighner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: portdowngrade and meta ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 21:43:41 -0000 On 24 May 2012 21:15, Chris Rees wrote: > On 24 May 2012 19:43, Lars Eighner wrote: >> >> I *must* revert xorg to a point at which changing ttys works. >> >> portdowngrade does not seem to work with metaports -- apparently it does= not >> revert the dependencies - which is what a metaport is all about. So when= the >> metaport is built, it may put it's own (old) version number on the port,= but >> actually has not changed anything. >> >> Any suggestion on how to get xorg back and how far back it was that >> switching ttys worked. > > Easiest way is to just checkout an old ports tree. =A0This will get you > one two hours before xorg-new was committed. > > Delete all your xorg- related ports: > > # pkg_delete -x xorg xf86- > > (and any other patterns I've forgotten) > > =A0# < supfile > > *default host=3Dftp.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=3D/tmp/beforenewxorg > *default base=3D/tmp/beforenewxorg > *default release=3Dcvs delete use-rel-suffix > > ports-all date=3D2012.04.21.15.00.00 > EOF > > # csup supfile > # mv /etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf.bak && echo > "PORTSDIR=3D/tmp/beforenewxorg/ports" For the archive-- just thought-- even though I did a typo there, DON'T use: mv file file.bak && echo something > file at least with csh, file will be clobbered before mv gets to it.... Instead, mv file file.bak echo something > file Sorry for giving bad advice! Chris