Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:23:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Eric Devolder <eric.devolder@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer? Message-ID: <43452568.4010303@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <f0531c170510060107x7cd1a20dq@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0531c170510050744n71b7379pbeded58b09e54d4b@mail.gmail.com> <434458C0.7070503@mac.com> <f0531c170510060107x7cd1a20dq@mail.gmail.com>
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Eric Devolder wrote: > Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe > just a side question: Can I "refresh" the files contained in > /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like > to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my > /usr/ports reflects only ports for 4.11. How can I replace them with > the 4.3 ones? If you have a /usr/ports tree corresponding to 4.3, I suppose you could simply copy that to a 4.11 system. Or as someone else mentioned, you could use CVS to obtain the ports tree as of a particular date. *Why* you would want to do so is unclear; there have been a lot of security bugs found in various common ports which have been fixed over the years. You could use sysutils/portdowngrade to go back to an older revision of a specific port. -- -Chuck
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