Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Rick Miller]

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!

On 6/6/12, grenville armitage <garmitage at swin.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich<erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com>  wrote:
> 	[..]
>
>>> is my English really this bad?
>>>
>>>  From the handbook:
>>>
>>> '. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.'
>>
>> Your English is fine, but "being told to use tag=." != "tag=. is the
>> only tag that exists".
>
> Another data point:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> cheers,
> gja
>
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Rick Miller