Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-30 Thread Fred Wright
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2016-12-29 11:53 , Fred Wright wrote: [...] > > It's unfortunate that there isn't a command to give you a simple > > category/port relative path. > > port info --portdir libuv Ah, OK. I'd tried "port dir" but not that. Though for this purpose what yo

re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
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

Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Joshua Root
On 2016-12-29 11:53 , Fred Wright wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Ken Cunningham wrote: That gives you the full history of macports-ports back in time. Then use port info PORT to find the path to your port, eg in this example case devel/libuv It's unfortunate that there isn't a command to giv

Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Fred Wright
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Ken Cunningham wrote: > So, this turns out to be a lot easier than I originally thought it > would be, and probably is no more difficult than svn was. This may not > be the most efficient way of doing it, but it's fairly easy to > understand, and it works for me. > > Here are

Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-26 Thread Ken Cunningham
So, this turns out to be a lot easier than I originally thought it would be, and probably is no more difficult than svn was. This may not be the most efficient way of doing it, but it's fairly easy to understand, and it works for me. Here are (perhaps too many) steps regarding how to do it. Start