From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QfJBh-0002pG-Qe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:06:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF6521C10A for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB2421C1E4 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 70DF140153; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:10:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1310159474; bh=ipYaW8mYSCswVYEBgHislhDsIYLTKtkbUJ/RaXqK1d8=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=a0K7glIyB0jbcCFGQ8nRxHhG8QfV3f2HhHXpypxKOVCmzHOywr269jeQ6eCSi16jy ISZ4UsAP7eop248lM7UeNXPgTmjhNEX7uEnD15+43HlBtBYfJdHZIua+vsblejJhTZ BmTJdkSOMwMFivh4xfXD5/LwUFmheKQaEbeITisI= Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 20B25260042; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:06:11 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade In-Reply-To: <20110705231128.8865f194.frank.peters@comcast.net> (Frank Peters's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:11:28 -0400") References: <20110705213148.ca51f2ac.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4749993.gJoIRfyaRY@localhost> <20110705231128.8865f194.frank.peters@comcast.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2011 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:06:11 -0400 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Hashcash: 1:30:110708:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org::dyo32OQQAjM+lUY5:0000000000000000000000000000000WvH4z X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cb86ffc3265ecf25c8fc45fcfb0b61be >>>>> "FP" == Frank Peters writes: FP> But is there a way to override the emerge refusal to allow FP> a downgrade to glibc? That is what I need to do. If you edit the glibc-2.13-r3 entry in /var/db/pkg to call it -r2, you should be able to sneak in a downgrade. Something like (untested): :; mv /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r3 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 :; cd /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 :; mv glibc-2.13-r3.ebuild glibc-2.13-r2.ebuild :; perl -pi -e 's/2.13-r3/2.13-r2/g' PF :; bunzip2 environment.bz2 :; perl -pi -e 's/2.13-r3/2.13-r2/g' environment :; bzip2 environment would probably convince portage that you have -r2 installed. It should then let you re-install -r2 via emerge =sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2. I found a backup of my old stage3, chroot(2)ed to that, upgraded it to 2.13-r2, used quickpkg to make a pkg file (forgot to specify --buildpkg) and untar(1)ed that over / to get a working box again. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6