From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:28:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090624022850.7966c5ff@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906231706s3c140069rdbb9822e9b29699f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems
> it's not about my choice anymore. Bummer.
You can tell before you perform the update that the old version is no
longer in portage, then you can copy the ebuild from /var/db/pkg to your
overlay (and run quickpkg for speed) before updating. Remember that
nothing is ever truly removed from portage, it is still in the CVS attic,
What would be handy would be a script that you run after you sync. If a
package you have installed is no longer in the tree, it copies the ebuild
to an overlay.
--
Neil Bothwick
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 23:20 [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx Mark Knecht
2009-06-23 23:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-23 23:40 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-23 23:53 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 0:06 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 0:16 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-24 0:27 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 0:33 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-24 0:42 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 1:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-24 3:13 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 5:55 ` Dale
2009-06-24 0:29 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-24 0:37 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 1:46 ` Dale
2009-06-24 1:14 ` Keith Dart
2009-06-24 1:28 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-06-24 1:42 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-24 20:17 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 20:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-24 20:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-25 0:08 ` Adam Carter
2009-06-25 0:46 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-25 0:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-25 1:25 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-25 1:04 ` Adam Carter
2009-06-25 1:07 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-25 1:15 ` Adam Carter
2009-06-25 1:27 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-25 1:51 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-25 2:33 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-25 8:47 ` bn
2009-06-25 17:42 ` Mark Knecht
2009-06-24 9:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-06-24 14:25 ` Paul Hartman
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