Some good ideas there - sounds like we have the makings of an update to that wiki page happening. This looks workable.
Might be nice someday to have this as a few simple commands, like homebrew's "peg" and "unpeg" commands. a command to list a port's history doing all that git stuff mentioned in the background a command to peg a port at a version in time (in the process creating a local repo if needed, and enabling in your sources.conf). a command to unpeg the port again Well, the manual method works well enough for me, unless someone feels really artistic. K
