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 1RYfDC-0004Kg-Hy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:44:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F81D21C176; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7481921C082 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so3322449wgb.10 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:43:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=37U6ffSDOL0Tf+UUDCzWW33+FQ8VnduFVFRA4A11Ltk=; b=cv5m90MWvetHvJZDJfNpiwTanrqjhHdXd1KB4XimQaDdAaijgoz0AiTQukGGRNAWtN 8UjWbtLDfx1pKCNEvvf0OwrFmULhuIBr4v86t/ztCN614Laj1nKIBolbGTufgJ3iTjGK iHhCIa+7YGCTrmBLXT6H4DTBu9vgAeTG1dqX0= Received: by 10.227.59.203 with SMTP id m11mr3724229wbh.18.1323355400611; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.11] ([88.151.72.189]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej17sm8852898wbb.14.2011.12.08.06.43.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:43:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EE0CCA2.4060201@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:41:38 +0100 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1? References: <4EE09CD9.5030201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e356e6c6-5ff3-4e07-90d1-7b1bad8e8277 X-Archives-Hash: aa1f47167bc7c2f81236f64a03a181f3 On 08-Dec-11 12:26, James Broadhead wrote: >> I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to >> re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x >> versions have been removed from portage? > > I think that the standard answer is "you can't". I mean, you could > fetch an old copy of the ebuild from cvs, and add it to a local > overlay, but you'd be completely unsupported (unsupportable?). > > A better question would be - Why do you want to? This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be updated is just enough to cause it... Anyway I'm surprised that everything older than 2.0.3 has been simply thrown overboard, especially while it worked for us without a problem for many years... Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.