Opened 20 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#2506 closed enhancement (wontfix)

No way to downgrade to old version of port

Reported by: kballard (Lily Ballard) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

I upgraded my zlib port, but that broke the things that depend on it which (strangely) linked to libz.1.2.1.dylib instead of libz.1.dylib (or just libz.dylib). I wanted to downgrade, but I absolutely could not figure out any way to do it. I eventually had to hack the Portfile to list the old version, so it could finally extract my previous installation from the packages dir.

I think an appropriate solution for this is to let the unarchive command take an optional version argument, so I could have simply done 'sudo port unarchive zlib 1.2.1_3' and then 'sudo port install zlib' and had it work.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 20 years ago by rshaw@…

Status: newassigned

comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by snu@…

op_sys: All

comment:3 Changed 19 years ago by rshaw@…

Owner: changed from rshaw@… to darwinports-bugs@…
Status: assignednew

No longer maintaining these ports.

comment:4 Changed 17 years ago by markd@…

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
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