On Jul 2, 2018, at 10:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> can selected ports be kept at a previous version?

MacPorts is not intended to be used in that way, so it does not have good 
support for that.


> E.g. gimp 2.10 currently doesn't compile on older MacOS versions. I have 
> supplied Ken some patches that will fix it on 10.6, but 10.5 and 10.4 are 
> very dyfficult, perhaps impossible. 2.8 continues to work. I'd like to keep 
> that. Can I use e.g. Ken's repository just for that single, e.g. 
> https://github.com/kencu/LeopardPorts or do I need toc ompletely "switch" 
> repository?
> I suppose this is not the only port that is troublesome neither that I am the 
> only one in this situaation.

The best solution would be for the maintainers of the affected ports to modify 
them so that they offer whatever version of the software is appropriate for 
whatever version of macOS is being used.

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