installing old versions of port (was: grace upgrade problem)

[Jochen Küpper]

On 09.05.2007, at 02:27, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> As for the failure to upgrade grace here, I'm guessing that the  
> reason was that, at the time you ran "port upgrade outdated", you  
> had the two versions of grace already installed and port thought it  
> only had to activate the newer one (which failed because the older  
> one was already active), whereas you had only one version installed  
> of each of the other ports, and so it did deactivated the old one  
> before installing the new one.  If this is what it did, then that  
> looks to me like a bug.  If you (or others reading this) would be  
> so kind as to try to reproduce and confirm this (and then file it  
> as a bug if you do), or otherwise figure out what is happening,  
> that would be most helpful.

Could be. Not sure there is a way to still find out.

Well, I thought I could try to reproduce it, so I uninstalled grace  
and tried to install the old version, but that does apparently not work:

 > sudo port install grace @5.1.18_0
--->  Fetching grace
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for grace
--->  Extracting grace
--->  Configuring grace
--->  Building grace with target all
--->  Staging grace into destroot
--->  Installing grace 5.1.20_0
--->  Activating grace 5.1.20_0
--->  Cleaning grace


Ho can I install an old version of a port?

Greetings,
Jochen
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