installing an older port

[Gideon Simpson]

Got it, that works.  One thing I can’t figure out how to do is to pull an older version of swig-python.  I don’t see that as a separate port in the repository.

-gideon

> On Sep 4, 2015, at 10:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Gideon Simpson wrote:
> 
>> I tried following the directions online to download and install an older port, but I’m encountering the following problem:
>> 
>> gideon at gs_air:ports$ svn checkout -r 137992 https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/devel/swig
>> Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.macports.org:443':
>> - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
>>   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
>> Certificate information:
>> - Hostname: *.macports.org
>> - Valid: from Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:19:18 GMT until Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:19:52 GMT
>> - Issuer: GlobalSign nv-sa, BE
>> - Fingerprint: 15:5e:21:55:fe:e3:26:ae:b2:f8:c6:6a:d2:1a:bf:82:74:dd:c9:14
>> (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? t
>> A    swig/files
>> A    swig/files/patch-configure.diff
>> A    swig/Portfile
>> Checked out revision 137992.
>> gideon at gs_air:ports$ cd swig/
>> gideon at gs_air:swig$ sudo port install
>> Password:
>> Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /Users/gideon/Downloads/ports/swig/Portfile
> 
> Read
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort#Step2:Gettheportdirectory
> 
> to learn why the Downloads directory is not a suitable location for portfiles.
> 
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