WARNING: Its really important you do not run portdowngrade from within the /usr/ports directory. Doing so really fucked up my server and I needed to delete all ports and reinstall into them from a list I had available.
First install ports-mgmt/portdowngrade and rehash to update cache
Then OUTSIDE OF THE PORTS TREE (cd ~ is a good start) perform the following command
portdowngrade dns/p5-Net-DNS
This will provide you with a list of revisions. Take a copy of the revision number and use that in the final command.
portdowngrade dns/p5-Net-DNS r397160
In my case i needed to downgrade p5-Net-DNS from 1.03 to 1.02 due to a incompatible change with SpamAssassin.
The output of the command will tell you want you need to do next…
# portdowngrade dns/p5-Net-DNS r397160 A p5-Net-DNS/Makefile A p5-Net-DNS/distinfo A p5-Net-DNS/pkg-plist A p5-Net-DNS/pkg-descr Checked out revision 397160. You should be done-- now cd into p5-Net-DNS and you can run # make deinstall install clean
Please note that portdowngrade no longer modifies the ports tree; the checked out port is at /home/spectrum/p5-Net-DNS
Having been already bitten earlier in the day I took the more cautious approach and did the following :-
# cd /home/spectrum/p5-Net-DNS # make # make deinstall # make install
resolved my problem in this case.
I then locked the port so I couldn’t accidentally do it again in future…
# pkg lock p5-Net-DNS