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brb moving to brazil

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.

Shoving your entire system config into a couple DSL files is elegant? Sorry, I’ll stick to OpenBSD’s ports system and periodic rsync backups, that give me all the same benefits without the mountain of XY problems. Gentoo would also like a word, but they’re too busy recompiling all of llvm with one build flag changed to give input. Hope you never have to use anything other nix, since you’ve spent all your time learing to configure an abstraction layer instead of interfacing with the real underlying tooling.