[gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

[gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

[Frank Schwidom]

Hi,

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?

thanks in advance
regards
f. schwidom

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

[Albert Hopkins]

On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:

> 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

Sigh.  2011 and *still* using CVS?!

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

[kashani]

On 6/20/2011 3:33 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
>
>> 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
>
> Sigh.  2011 and *still* using CVS?!

	Infrastructure has a project to move to Git, but I've not tracked 
progress. I will say that moving a whole project with hundreds of 
developers, build scripts, push scripts, pull scripts, web site links, a 
decade of commits, etc is not simple.

This is one of the better articles on the real world issues of changing 
your VCS.
http://lwn.net/Articles/409635/

kashani