From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:50:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38DBB4E9-0CB6-4FF7-BF83-DD22C2970A43@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906150934.09553.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On 15 Jun 2009, at 08:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> ...
> Much more work than it's worth. It's easier to reinstall.
> ...
> There was a recent thread on this, and the OP eventually decided to
> write a
> script that listed every package he had and copy this to
> package.mask (with
> ">" in front of course), then just wait for everything in stable to
> catch up.
I considered that to be an easy & straight-forward way to undertake
the "downgrade".
I'm not sure if every installed package was marked in this way or
merely every package in world?
But indeed the poster who suggested this method stated that he had
gone from ~x86 to fully x86 in a matter of a few months.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-15 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 14:40 [gentoo-user] About procmail and getline Harry Putnam
2009-06-14 16:57 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-06-14 17:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-06-15 7:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-15 16:50 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-06-15 17:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-14 17:45 ` Harry Putnam
2009-06-14 18:12 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-06-14 23:37 ` Harry Putnam
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