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Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:22:44 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 09.50 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha |
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> scritto: |
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>> Can anyone guide me or point me to a guide how to savely do that |
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>> manually? |
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> There really isn't a safe way as soon as you built anything at all |
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> against the new version. |
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The glibc ebuild really needs an override, like the usual check for |
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I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_AND_WILL_KEEP_THE_PIECES_IF_IT_BREAKS or some such, |
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set in the environment. Failing to have such an override at all, seems |
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rather unGentooish to me. |
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Fortunately for me (I haven't upgraded to 2.13 yet, but ran into the need |
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to downgrade an ~arch version myself not long ago, I hadn't emerged |
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anything of major interest since so the warning was incorrect on its |
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face), Gentoo has a number of alternative methods to enforce one's will |
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over an obstinate system, if one believes it necessary. I think I copied |
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to my personal overlay and edited the ebuild there... after cursing the |
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fact that I couldn't simply set some sort of var to get the perfectly good |
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binpkg of the old version to install. The problem has since been fixed |
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and I've upgraded past it, since. |
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If that hadn't worked, I'd have tried the untar-the-binpkg-over-the-live-fs |
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thing. Either that, or the boot to backup snapshot, set ROOT |
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appropriately, and emerge from there. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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