Is there a way to get the previous version of any package?

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-3-26 05:37 , Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
> 
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 14:21, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 13:20, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to reliably stop wireshark (without messing with the
>>> Portfile) from keeping on getting the zlib 1.2.4 release even though
>>> I've deactivated it and activated the zlib 1.2.3 release? I've even
>>> gone so far as to uninstall zlib 1.2.4 when MacPorts wasn't ignoring
>>> the inactive zlib 1.2.4.
>>>
>>> I've tried deactivating, cleaning (with --dist) and then uinstalling
>>> zlib 1.2.4 prior to deactivating, cleaning, uninstalling and then
>>> installing wireshark but when I re-install wireshark, it keeps on
>>> pulling in the zlib 1.2.4 package.  What I've had to do to get it to
>>> use the zlib 1.2.3 package is to start an install of wireshark going,
>>> wait till it's done installing the zlib 1.2.4 package and going onto
>>> something else before using another window to quickly uninstall zlib
>>> 1.2.4 and install zlib 1.2.3 while wireshark is being built in the
>>> other window but this seems a very dangerous and Rube Goldberg-like
>>> maneuver to me.
>>
>> MacPorts follows dependencies automatically. To tell it not to do so,
>> use the -n switch.
>>
>> sudo port -n install wireshark
> 
> 
> Got it.  Thanks.  The man page for port (even after a "port selfupdate"
> to 1.8.2) states that the -n switch is "only for upgrading" so that's
> what threw me since I wasn't doing an upgrade but an install of wireshark.

Install triggers an upgrade of any dependencies that are already
installed. But why not just leave zlib 1.2.4 installed but inactive so
upgrade doesn't see it as outdated?

- Josh