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No, it’s the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    I’m not familiar with ports, does it provide an easy way to install packages of a particular version? Is it OpenBSD only, or just a system of installing things?

    OpenBSD’s ports are just a collection of perl scripts and makefiles managed by a VCS (usually CVS though there are mirrors). Due to how recursive CVS works, you can easily update any part of the tree to a different commit/tag.

    $ cd ${PORTSROOT}/games/stone-soup
    $ cvs up -CPd -D 'some date_spec' #or -r some_tag
    $ make install
    $ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ enjoy your old or backported videos games
    

    very scriptable, should be easy to figure out how to automate this should you need to.