From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 23:16:08 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 8594C106566B for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:16:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB1F8FC16 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q56NG3ZO021082; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:16:07 -0600 From: Erich To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:15:57 +0700 Message-ID: <12314816.XWuDBMq1B8@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4FCFC75E.4000707@swin.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Rick Miller , grenville armitage 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 23:16:08 -0000 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 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. Erich