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SYNOPSISportdowngrade [-o] [-s cvs-server] [-l logfile] [-t time] port-name DESCRIPTIONUpgrading the installed software on FreeBSD is quite easy: Use cvsup(1) to copy the head revision of the ports tree from a cvs repository into your local ports tree and install the upgraded port f.e. by using por- tupgrade(1). But how can you go back to an older relase if the latest version turns out to be not flawless? As ports do not carry port spe- cific version labes in the CVS repository, cvs(1) has to be used manu- ally to inspect all commits into the ports cvs tree. portdowngrade(1) simplifies this work. It analyzes the history of commits to the port and presents the user a list of changes. By selecting one, the port can be set back to a previous version easily. See chapter INTERNALS for more details. Afterwards portupgrade(1) can be used to install this previous version. OPTIONSport-name the name of the port. Might be "portname" or "category/portname" and my optionally be terminated with a "$" indicating that no trailing characters are allowed. So mozilla includes (among oth- ers) www/mozilla, www/mozilla-devel and x11-fonts/mozilla-fonts. mozilla$ includes only www/mozilla (from the 3 mentioned above), while www/mozilla includes www/mozilla and www/mozilla-devel. -s cvs-server --server cvs-server CVS server root directory. If not set, the CVSROOT environment variable is used. Example: -s:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs -l logfile --logfile logfile logfile to collect debug information -t time --maxTime time maximum time difference (in seconds) to treat cvs commits with the same comment as belonging together. Default: 10 seconds -o --login execute a "cvs login" before all other cvs commands. Afterwards, the password for the choosen cvs server should have been stored in the ~/.cvspass file, if it exists, so that this option is no longer required. or a "$". If portname contains one of them, everything before the "/" and after the "$" is removed to get the pure port name. Then make search name=purename | grep ^Path: | grep portname is executed in the ports directory. In both cases all result lines are used. If more than one is received, the user has to choose one. Afterwards portdowngrade performs six steps Step 0: Preparation If the option -o was set, a cvs -d cvs-server login is executed. This will prompt the user for the cvs password. Step 1: Checking out port from CVS repository In this step a temporary directory is create and cvs -Qf co -d port ports/portname is executed within this directory. This copies the HEAD revision of the port into the temporary directory. If the -s option is given, this and all cvs commands below get the additional option d cvs-server. Step 2: Reading the port history from the CVS repository In this step cvs -Qf log > tempfile is executed within the temporary directory. This returns a logfile with all commit actions taken on the port. Step 3: Analyzing the port history from the CVS repository In this step the ports commit history returned from step 2 is analyzed. Each entry is scanned for the line "Working file: " to get the filename and for "date: " after a dashed line to get the commit date and time. All lines after the date are stored as the commits comment. Afterwards all found log entries are ordered by the commit date. If two log entries - have the same commit time or - have the same comment which is larger than 256 characters or commit event. This Makefile is scanned for the strings "PORTVERSION=" and, if this was not found, "DISTNAME=". The text following is the version which was committed in the corresponding commit. This information, together with the data collected in step 3, are presented to the user in a list, which is growing slowly (aproximately one line per returned Makefile version). The user can watch the list growing or interupt by pressing one of the following keys. Within this Step, the user can interactively press one of the following keys: - <Space>: display the next page, - p: display the previous page, - d: show details (the full comment) of a specific commit and - <enter>: choose a commit event and leave the presentation. If enter is pressed the user has to enter a commit number (all events are numbered). Entering nothing returns to the presentation. Entering 0 terminates portdowngrade. A vaild number leads to Step 5: Checking out choosen date of the port from the CVS repository In this step a new temporary directory is created and cvs -Qf co -fd synch -D "date GMT" ports/portname is executed within this directory, where date is the date of commit event choosen by the user. This copies corresponding revision into the temporary directory. Step 6: Modifying the port Up to now just temporary files are touched which will be deleted if portdowngrade(1) terminates. In this step the port is deleted and the reqested files are copied into the ports directory. Now the port is set back to the requested older state. portupgrade -f portname will install it, if portupgrade(1) is installed. Note, that the next cvsup will set the port back to its head revision! BUGSYou are questioning my code? You are questioning my honor! (Klingon idiom) AUTHORHeiner Eichmann <h.eichmann@gmx.de> SEE ALSOcvs(1), cvsup(1), portupgrade(1) Man(1) output converted with man2html |