From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JkDNO-0005tb-Hl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:08:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51535E0789; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144A8E0789 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so445729fge.14 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:07:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=689cpI/3A4rIG1hRhgc+TEgKH1pQY/RjYar8rhpcem4=; b=pw1FKGFtBxNtCVnGDvv1Q4gCdwJlqucg7RoaxhaJWkbWl7EI3DXzNrIPFCGTE9arSPSWNYAuNgziSP2qt4JAn9yUoN9z7viE8wLMRbd/D+juF53LOF6beAm2teD/htlXflIDQAun4/N8UnRb0/jDfonbT0fuE0c2sFR+t/dXeZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=d4DU2gAveLkNb35UoF41caNa4/i8yqK3BEg2vk1EDi9mWKaJ9bZiU6YzCXgyPx3nUas5RmAzda4snj21zepjU9XdyAAFTBdw9ZzXA7qNdE+oz6AgyPgkJckHvK3GrSonLTt0ULhMcWckd8ge9CMBOiHeI1ECzrcjtLSCx8DP/Ls= Received: by 10.82.181.8 with SMTP id d8mr2547319buf.51.1207897670417; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.200.116? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm8086373muf.0.2008.04.11.00.07.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions? Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:04:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <5bdc1c8b0804070952v2fabc362j51ba421e2ff0fdfb@mail.gmail.com> <47FE626D.3040309@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0804101241h23e0b95kbd2a0e398e892bc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0804101241h23e0b95kbd2a0e398e892bc8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804110904.50131.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 875bee2e-7d55-40bf-b1cb-d63b194ff6f5 X-Archives-Hash: fad53843e916242461b66b18cffbb08a On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > The folks who maintain the portage servers will at times remove old > versions of programs, for instance the ati-drivers package. In that > past I did a blind update and got a new ati-drivers package but > unfortunately it didn't support the ATI 9100 IGP chipset and the > machine broke. > > Hope this explains my comment. Portage to the rescue!! :-) Well, eix actually. It comes with a script - eix-test-obsolete - that scans your portage config files looking for inconsistencies and redundancies, then splits huge amounts of output to the console. One of the things it does is find installed ebuilds that are no longer in the tree. This fixes your bind, as you can get copies of those missing ebuilds from /var/db/pkg///*ebuild and copy them to a local private overlay where they will stay for posterity -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list