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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 17:47, MAL wrote:
> Hannes Mehnert wrote:
>  > Just inject the ebuild.
>
> Perfect, looks like gentoo users need to be better educated on the port=
age
> system ;)
>
> Thanks all,
>

Does anyone know whether it is possible to "copy" / "rename" a package's =
data=20
such as to pretend an older version is a newer version but disturb the sy=
stem=20
less than with a fake ebuild. (Or am I mistaken about inject?)

Paul

--=20
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