On 31 Dec 2010, at 18:08, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 07:54, Barrie Stott <[email protected]> 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 /-| [email protected] > > 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. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
