From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:03:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620100300.441db66d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110620084327.GA6013@BiggerBoxer>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:43:27 +0200, Frank Schwidom wrote:
> how is it possible to reinstall an older Package from
> /usr/portage/distfiles/<package>, when the corresponding
> ebuild /usr/portage/<topic>/<package>/<version>.ebuild
> does not longer exists? Is there an option, to keep older
> ebuilds intact during emerge --sync?
There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package
Click the dead files link to see old ebuilds, download the one you want
an put it in a local overlay. Then emerge with the -k option.
--
Neil Bothwick
EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has
pictures.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-20 8:43 [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages Frank Schwidom
2011-06-20 9:03 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-06-20 10:33 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-20 18:04 ` kashani
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