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

[Kok-Yong Tan]

Nifty.  Thanks, Perry.

On Mar 25, 2010, at 14:42, Perry Lee wrote:

> You can also create a local Portfile repository [1] with the older  
> version of zlib, so port will see the older version rather than the  
> newer one.
>
> perry at patton-lxp ~/src/lports/archivers/zlib % port list zlib
> zlib                           @1.2.3          archivers/zlib
> zlib                           @1.2.4          archivers/zlib
> perry at patton-lxp ~/src/lports/archivers/zlib % sudo port install zlib
> --->  Computing dependencies for zlib
> --->  Fetching archive for zlib
> --->  Fetching zlib
> --->  Attempting to fetch zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> distfiles.macports.org/zlib
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for zlib
> --->  Extracting zlib
> --->  Applying patches to zlib
> --->  Configuring zlib
> --->  Building zlib
> --->  Staging zlib into destroot
> --->  Packaging tgz archive for zlib 1.2.3_4+universal
> --->  Installing zlib @1.2.3_4+universal
> --->  Activating zlib @1.2.3_4+universal
> --->  Cleaning zlib
> perry at patton-lxp ~/src/lports/archivers/zlib % port installed zlib
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   zlib @1.2.3_4+universal (active)
>   zlib @1.2.4_1+universal
>
> [1] http://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:21 AM, 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
>>
>>
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