Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?

[Peter Vereshagin]

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You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
2011/06/14 17:17:39 -0700 Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> => To Peter Vereshagin :
CS> > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetched previously?
CS> As far as I can tell, you can't.

But on every 'portsnap fetch' it tells it downloads a new stuff and doesn't
tell it deletes the old?
- From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file it had ever
downloaded: they all have different times.
So it's just a feature that is missing yet from portsnap? or it's never
possible by a portsnap's (storage) design which I believe is rather simple?

Should it be possible to delete every file newer than the date of my preference
and just (something like) 'portsnap extract' then from that storage?

CS> > Suppose I need the particular port or the whole tree as of the specified date
CS> > and time?  Or, if I need the particular version of the specified port and optionally  the
CS> > ports tree that corresponds it?
CS> 
CS> Update the ports tree using cvs/csup, which do support updating to a particular date.

I'd prefer svn/p4 for this if I did. Not a big deal though. ;-)

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