Arne Kaiser wrote:
> Hello,
> i just installed php5.2 from cvs updated pkgsource. Now I realized that
> this was really a bad idea and I would like to downgrade to 5.16. I
> tried serveral cvs commands but i had no succsess to get the older
> version of php into my /usr/pkgsrc/lan/php5 directory. I hope someone
> can help with this.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/lang/php5/Makefile

From the log message, it looks like you're using pkgsrc -current. 
Revision 1.45 of the Makefile says it implements PHP 5.2, so I have to
think the previous revision still used 5.1.6.  That also happens to be
part of the pkgsrc quarterly release 2006Q3.  

Of course it's not a simple matter of fetching one makefile or even one
package: you want all of pkgsrc to be consistent, which in this case means
getting everything as of that release, i.e. everything tagged
"pkgsrc-2006Q3".  

So I think you want a command about like this:

	$ cd /usr
	$ cvs update -r pkgsrc-2006Q3 pkgsrc

Then wait.  Then 'cd pkgsrc/lang/php5 && make clean && make' should do the
job.  

(That will put you on the release branch.  You could fetch the files as of
a point in time and stick with -current, too.  But after some years as a
pkgsrc pursuer, I'm offering pkgsrc advice in the guise of cvs help.)

HTH.  

--jkl