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

[Erich]

Hi,

On 06 June 2012 17:40:28 Rick Miller wrote:

> 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!
> 
and it should be mentioned in the hand book.

I did not get any response for this on the proper mailing list.

> On 6/6/12, grenville armitage <garmitage at swin.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
This is why I tried then to get the ports tree from the release by hand or by synchronising with the release and store it.

> > 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.

The real answer would be to put this into the handbook.

Erich