From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 21:48:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82718106566B for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A9D8FC14 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds11 with SMTP id ds11so6660958wgb.31 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:48:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to :x-gm-message-state; bh=I0gQlQzmGIAtQRxxCNLXAMf6vwVxVMWWOyLy3gpwP9s=; b=jOG3HVNF7uG9EztmqHu9AB/1xUZH6iozeTFuTQ6c8ZUFOJpMwD3/JNKJwrzhAeDWAe o9YpbQ93G8ge5e3JNLt2bg451oF9gZKakMxfnriros4AhlvlhXIBQHzuv4xuOtdFau6N ZQxPwHma+W/XKnuK2xNCcvfkWzi+Sbaj1gkg1J+BOm42pSGy2L1cHByPgIS+7jutoC0G 7bFdicWU8FzVID/FW6gUeDHTY8bElXVAUuek+tOMHBDtlCkyQwvdmIVjCabH2+JduOWR xiy7qn5XVva9exlBOMhDlwV/lGPTWniblUt40CWWCzF5qz5F+iET33G3ppl4796AX7Cl Avdg== Received: by 10.216.212.217 with SMTP id y67mr18273175weo.173.1339019330731; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.35.66.146] ([92.90.16.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id db7sm4963908wib.6.2012.06.06.14.48.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:48:50 -0700 (PDT) References: <3019920.ozTXahhPXd@x220.ovitrap.com> <15075001.JBc1UY2ed2@x220.ovitrap.com> <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9A405) From: Damien Fleuriot Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:48:40 +0200 To: grenville armitage X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnCntahoxn6F5Zo/omEg7UC0gRee7FawCdyC27AIya+5vn0lcP33cDxwpI0jJvXGC1InEUf Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:48:52 -0000 On 6 Jun 2012, at 23:10, grenville armitage wrote: > > > On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich 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 > Actually does , flagging post for future reading. Thanks guys.