On 6 Jun 2012, at 23:10, grenville armitage <garmit...@swin.edu.au> wrote:
> > > On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich<erichfreebsdl...@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 > Actually does , flagging post for future reading. Thanks guys. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
