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 <garmit...@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 _______________________________________________ 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"
