How to resurrect ltrace from Attic?

[Mark Linimon]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:45:21AM +0000, Janne Snabb wrote:
> I noticed that someone has removed sysutils/ltrace for some reason.

If we pull up the page on CVSWeb:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/ltrace/Attic/Makefile

We find:

  2011-08-08 sysutils/ltrace: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfiles

(or, you could take a look in ports/MOVED, which has the same info)

For CVS, you could note the date on that page, and then subtract a bit
from the commit date, and then do:

  cd /usr; cvs co -D 20110731 ports/sysutils/ltrace

You would have to modify that if your ports are not in /usr/ports, of course.

If you were not using cvs to get your ports, well, AFAIK you'll have to
do some manual operations, e.g., for each file in:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/ltrace/Attic/

click on filename, go to previous revision, click download ...

... at least, for the files that existed at removal time.  (e.g. pkg_comment
and pkg_plist were removed years ago, and are thus were no longer needed even
before the port was removed.)

mcl