portdowngrade(CVS) deprecated -> alternative for portsnap(8) usage

[Jason Helfman]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM, <rank1seeker at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=203241
> > >
> > > Will it be transformed to checkout via SVN, only origins we need, or
> will
> > > it be dumped from ports tree as obsolete.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I rewrote it in sh, quite simply because I thought that c++ was insane
> > for such simple code.
> >
> > I'm afraid it doesn't quite have the same behaviour, but it's still
> > very easy to use.
> >
> > Please let me know if there's something you desperately miss about the
> > old version.
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
>
> Thanks for your effort!
>
> # portdowngrade audio/oss
>     Listed all revisions
> # portdowngrade audio/oss r300895
>     I've picked one from the past
>
> However:
> # portsnap fetch update
>     Is blind to this change and fails to update it back, to it's latest
> version
>
> portdowngrade should also alter/update portsnap's DB
>
>
> Domagoj Smolčić


Portdowngrade always warned that portsnap would always overwrite any
altering of the origin, which I believe is still the best path. If anything
a warning should be displayed, if not already.

-jgh

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