installing old port version
Hello, is it possible to install an older version of a port, if the last one (installed the usual way) crashes? Alexey.
On Apr 21, 2007, at 14:22, Алексей Муранов wrote:
is it possible to install an older version of a port, if the last one (installed the usual way) crashes?
Yes, but it takes a bit of effort: - You could either look in the repository browser [1], find the source of the old portfile that you want, download it, and overwrite your local portfile for that port [2]. - Or you could use a Subversion working copy for your ports tree, and use "svn up" to backdate a port to a previous version. But this is all really not how MacPorts is designed to be used. The intention is that there is one version of a port, it is the latest an greatest, and if it does not work, then we need to fix it so that it works. What port is crashing for you? [1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports [2] locate it with "port file foo"
Le 21 Apr 2007 à 22:59, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
On Apr 21, 2007, at 14:22, Алексей Муранов wrote:
is it possible to install an older version of a port, if the last one (installed the usual way) crashes?
Yes, but it takes a bit of effort:
- You could either look in the repository browser [1], find the source of the old portfile that you want, download it, and overwrite your local portfile for that port [2].
- Or you could use a Subversion working copy for your ports tree, and use "svn up" to backdate a port to a previous version.
But this is all really not how MacPorts is designed to be used. The intention is that there is one version of a port, it is the latest an greatest, and if it does not work, then we need to fix it so that it works. What port is crashing for you?
[1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports
[2] locate it with "port file foo"
Ryan, thanks for your explanation, i might try to use your recommendations to install an earlier version of xfig. I have a problem with the port of xfig 3.2.5-alpha5. It crashes as only i try to open the drop-down menu File, or Edit, or maybe any menu at all. About the man pages: Gufo was right, i am able to see man pages for ports now as i have added directories to MANPATH in ~/.profile. By the way, it was not obvious for me where the "global" definition of environment variable were made, but now i know: ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist (see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ OSX_Technology_Overview/CommandLine/chapter_8_section_4.html) Alexey.
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Ryan, thanks for your explanation, i might try to use your recommendations to install an earlier version of xfig. I have a problem with the port of xfig 3.2.5-alpha5. It crashes as only i try to open the drop-down menu File, or Edit, or maybe any menu at all.
Hereby confirmed, the cause being Xaw3D. I hacked the build process to exclude Xaw3D and Xfig now works well. Personally I don't care much about 3D buttons and menus so I don't mind the hack, but I am wondering whether this is an Xfig problem of an Xaw3D one. By the way, the immediatly earlier variant of Xfig had the same problem for me as far as I remember, and also had a nasty bug in the Export dialog (which would stretch to about a gazillion screens in height as soon as somebody changed the format to export to). Stefan -- If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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