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 1JkMfd-0002q8-Ky for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:04:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E8D7E096F; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C92E096F for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so139638ana.47 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:11 -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=nUFh8+yd+4JS3D1uXK7IdBS9bglFWctX3QH3MWllZEo=; b=v9FUkneg4ZXzihRxSkbMXSD3yO7kERw9/XTArczSIoU3JHo+HA+PcWg9uebxeRj3+D2LoGRqLP7Vwex2Vda7Xk2K75nyGMvzwOrdWxPXaowZ6Exk8g7KkeHnV0IfmFon4d0DVm617/iQd/zmcYncHOL4zB0bt8bj7WN0bFYo9PA= 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=Wbzu+6DvYx7SQcn84XC/jQng08cDIdg/n99/rRo3S3LSENf9LylkifDJ6nFCPz4tWTMRLQfREuON1j2TW9aIR6zp08sxRp+Hx06VsgeAPdG+rU9Z2RxTp5HglU+elEDPN33rEl9WJm+xN4SHXNVMfvxH8yfZZtZCApJUUk67mTY= Received: by 10.100.201.9 with SMTP id y9mr2089118anf.157.1207933451768; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.12.15 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0804111004w6963c142i53e93d20374387a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:11 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions? In-Reply-To: <200804110904.50131.alan.mckinnon@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> <47FE626D.3040309@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0804101241h23e0b95kbd2a0e398e892bc8@mail.gmail.com> <200804110904.50131.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cfb97975-c4f7-4f0a-8ea2-8b7abede5188 X-Archives-Hash: be576c9aac497b15e36789d213a60bf9 On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Alan McKinnon 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///*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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list