Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:15:57 +0700 From: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>, grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <12314816.XWuDBMq1B8@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHzLAVE4KW%2Bk4zbKKe70dxh10T2e-v5-G59eZBG=8kWiATitMQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au> <CAHzLAVE4KW%2Bk4zbKKe70dxh10T2e-v5-G59eZBG=8kWiATitMQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On 06 June 2012 17:40:28 Rick Miller wrote: > 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! > and it should be mentioned in the hand book. I did not get any response for this on the proper mailing list. > On 6/6/12, grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> wrote: > > > 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. > > This is why I tried then to get the ports tree from the release by hand or by synchronising with the release and store it. > > 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. The real answer would be to put this into the handbook. Erichhome | help
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