[Mldonkey-users] TIP: reverting to older versions of the cvs tree

[Brett Dikeman]

Just a sidenote- I remembered it's possible, of course, to revert 
BACK to older versions of the source...so I dug up the man page and 
figured it out.

One would ordinarily do:

cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/mldonkey login
(no password)

followed by:

cvs -z9 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/mldonkey co mldonkey

Instead, for the second command, insert the -D option(which is an 
option to the command "co" or checkout) to specify a date:

cvs -z9 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/mldonkey co 
-D 1/10/2003 mldonkey

The above command will give you the 2.02-4 release, which predated 
the buggy features from 1/11/2003 onwards(I think.  I honestly don't 
remember if the major bugs were in the 1/12 or 1/11 version. 
Obviously you can change the command.)

You can also do it by tag, if each release is tagged(I believe they are.)

I figured this would be helpful information for those who updated to 
2.02-5 and would like to go back until some of the bugs are fixed- 
just note that while you can always go back code-wise, going back 
DATA and OPTIONS wise might not work so hot(that said, I had a bunch 
of files and they're still present and appear OK; I did have to 
select them all and choose "Verify Chunks.)

Make sure you do a 'make clean' and then a make(configure is done for 
you.)  I'd be willing to bet you can save your compiled binary for 
mldonkey_gui from 2.02-5, since it has some nice fixes in it.

Brett
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