From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:15:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050826181546.2bc6ec8d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acccfe505082609032f05d88b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:03:49 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> There is much here I don't understand. Isn't it possible for someone
> who actually
> got one of the missing ebuilds to re-build an ebuild and pass it
> around? For instance,
> I seem to have
>
> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11
> linux-2.6.11.11
> linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4
> linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
> linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9
> linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r11
> linux-2.6.7-win4lin-r2
> linux-2.6.7-win4lin-r5
>
> Isn't it possible to package one of these and share it? (Provided
> anyone would trust me not to be malicious).
You already have the ebuild if it is installed, in /var/db/pkg. Portage
needs to keep the ebuilds of installed packages in order to uninstall
them.
There is an area on the Gentoo CVS server that hold old ebuilds removed
from portage.
--
Neil Bothwick
Everything else being equal, fat people use more soap.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-26 1:47 [gentoo-user] win4lin John Jolet
2005-08-26 1:54 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-26 2:08 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 2:13 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-26 2:20 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 7:32 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-26 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-26 11:47 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 16:03 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2005-08-26 17:15 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-08-26 19:05 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-26 2:17 ` Mark Knecht
2005-08-26 2:23 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 2:39 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-26 2:44 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 2:58 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-26 19:08 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-26 2:45 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-26 2:52 ` John Jolet
2005-08-26 3:03 ` Mark Knecht
2005-08-26 3:19 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-26 3:04 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-26 2:21 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-26 16:59 ` Ron Bickers
2005-08-26 17:21 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2005-08-26 19:01 ` Ron Bickers
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