Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:40:28 -0400 From: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> To: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CAHzLAVE4KW%2Bk4zbKKe70dxh10T2e-v5-G59eZBG=8kWiATitMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <3019920.ozTXahhPXd@x220.ovitrap.com> <CADLo83_EJs4nk3Vt4eos%2BTtyFgJc2tK5yR8h4jBVwL-UBC8QZw@mail.gmail.com> <15075001.JBc1UY2ed2@x220.ovitrap.com> <CADLo83_f_fYnH7=R%2BTMJqx9ynOC%2B=ZNTgoBJpMf09TAktqOWQg@mail.gmail.com> <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au>
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I, for one, appreciate you changing the subject because I didn't know this either and its an important function in my use case where point in time snapshots are important to the architects and ops folks! On 6/6/12, grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> wrote: > > > On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich<erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > [..] > >>> is my English really this bad? >>> >>> From the handbook: >>> >>> '. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.' >> >> Your English is fine, but "being told to use tag=." != "tag=. is the >> only tag that exists". > > Another data point: > > In Erich's defense, I'd say his interpretation is quite understandable. > "...use only tag=. for the ports-* collections" also left me with the > distinct impression (some many moons in the past) that there are no > other meaningful (or safe) tags when csup'ing the Ports tree. > > In 12 years of using FreeBSD I've never really sought out Erich's use > case (viz. roll back /usr/ports to some past known-good version), I > just assumed it wasn't possible. So this thread has taught at least one > person (me) a new thing -- I never fully grokked that adding "date=" > to the supfile could achieve this desired result when csup'ing the > Ports tree. Now I know, and I've changed the Subject line of this email > in the hope it helps some future soul googling for the answer. > > cheers, > gja > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller
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