From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk2eT-0003zJ-7u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64FB5E070C; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.240]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D883E070C for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k27so102341hsc.2 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9mgsmWV375CySzIqOlU1xFl8pisuiZ5hxFbsqdfXHPs=; b=fQN145J4qhaqqPi9loPVDHzjImmCd07avtcRV8QCg4TTJAKt6Iv31WL9GfrlXVJ0TaRXeaiph+Pc3Hx0h7Dk+WL+gdnc6qx6NTmq9rQ1EiT2YYV5fUaF6KgQocBJ05JnRonHZiMdwTiSgZzXRP1ZGAx6NFdy9g3Jp1KkQv/fQlM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fadDL05dzFCZDvQPrhqqhTAnZ/U1VQ2XcOpE/jYgA0tLOQqa9r406ps2uxaX7UbEFCgORGZy1f3RKwJa69qjvLe3VSZje3mu0A6fAtTf10wEW3SEqnKjU7ycAAt0faOE1gvTPOb3RwmrsJuIvzceD8K2EYgXuTusoaSz020S39A= Received: by 10.100.178.13 with SMTP id a13mr3525543anf.8.1207856494864; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.12.15 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0804101241h23e0b95kbd2a0e398e892bc8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:34 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions? In-Reply-To: <47FE626D.3040309@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0804070952v2fabc362j51ba421e2ff0fdfb@mail.gmail.com> <3b5772b30804071000u321c5c61t5242d51670c2f803@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0804071029l3961fecel276ee2b6b2264d0c@mail.gmail.com> <1bd893420804071051n52a319f7rf9ef94cc6dbe8cb@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0804071057t559f0541tc2fc43900d39af41@mail.gmail.com> <47FE626D.3040309@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5366b4db-b091-493a-a44d-e4b9ea4d3f65 X-Archives-Hash: ba7726f637d90dffbb20b834eece24d2 On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, b.n. wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > > > > > Pretty much the same here but this is old hardware and a complete > > emerge -DuN world would break the machine > > > > Why? I'm curious about that. > > > m. The folks who maintain the portage servers will at times remove old versions of programs, for instance the ati-drivers package. In that past I did a blind update and got a new ati-drivers package but unfortunately it didn't support the ATI 9100 IGP chipset and the machine broke. Hope this explains my comment. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list