From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJHIa-0003oV-Fz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:29:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0681CE075C; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C184AE075C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC3FE19FB6C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:28:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:28:50 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx Message-ID: <20090624022850.7966c5ff@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906231706s3c140069rdbb9822e9b29699f@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0906231620i2aa5204u28f6e181183fcc96@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231640o792ce292t827bf0935177c0e0@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231653p550bc483nfd2cda8bad52b4c3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231706s3c140069rdbb9822e9b29699f@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs77 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/R+tdemNqRvHSpRx/IeIfDBx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 0e6cc790-28e9-406b-a215-984501f0c936 X-Archives-Hash: e9efda27d4817c91b93ad88682c6cd4d --Sig_/R+tdemNqRvHSpRx/IeIfDBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! --Sig_/R+tdemNqRvHSpRx/IeIfDBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpBgVcACgkQum4al0N1GQMYSACZAdIL7L9XGB4qGw43r8LiiHkq MyoAni6GI155YuL7uf0Cw1qCWACjWq1k =81SX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/R+tdemNqRvHSpRx/IeIfDBx--