Deactivating the current version of a port and activating a different version

[Barrie Stott]

On 31 Dec 2010, at 18:08, Arno Hautala wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 07:54, Barrie Stott <zen146410 at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> As I see it I need to do two things: deactivate the working version of a port and activate a different version.
>> I've scoured the Users Guide regarding this but without success so if anyone can help I would be very grateful.
> 
> Everything is outlined here:
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort
> 
> This includes instructions on activating a version that is still
> available, as well as using an old version of the Portfile to
> recompile.
> 
> -- 
> arno  s  hautala    /-|   arno at alum.wpi.edu
> 
> pgp b2c9d448

Many thanks for that. I also found information about activate and deactivate in the man page; I had wrongly assumed that the User Guide would be more current than the man page.

Barrie.