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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:46:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060908224652.76aa3660@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0609081336r703d1000qac338bd48261e087@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:36:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

>  Why can't the ebuild be left on my
> machine in some location so that the machine remains unaltered until I
> decide it's worth dealing with?

The ebuild is on your machine, in /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/
Copy it to your overlay and portage will stop complaining.

Or you could let portage perform the minor update. It's only a revision
level change, most likely just a fix for the security issue.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Bother", said Pooh, as he crossed the event horizon.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-08 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-08 17:02 [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question Mark Knecht
2006-09-08 17:35 ` kashani
     [not found]   ` <5bdc1c8b0609081227n56c4402fh7a85d05c62c39fb8@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-08 20:11     ` Richard Fish
2006-09-08 20:36       ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-08 21:46         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-09-09 17:06           ` Mark Knecht

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