Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>  Portage to the rescue!! :-)
>
>  Well, eix actually. It comes with a script - eix-test-obsolete - that
>  scans your portage config files looking for inconsistencies and
>  redundancies, then splits huge amounts of output to the console. One of
>  the things it does is find installed ebuilds that are no longer in the
>  tree.
>
>  This fixes your bind, as you can get copies of those missing ebuilds
>  from /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>/*ebuild and copy them to a local
>  private overlay where they will stay for posterity
>
>  --
>  Alan McKinnon
>  alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

Alan,
   Thanks. The command is enlightening and is helping me clean things up a bit.

   Now, if I knew anything at all about creating and maintaining my
own overlay I'd be really dangerous. ;-)

Cheers,
Mark
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