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On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Due to the recent X updates, portage wants to upgrade ati-drivers. I |
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> am having problems with all ati-drivers newer than 8.34.8 [1], so |
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> what is the official way to make sure 8.34.8 stays there until a |
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> newer version is released that fixes these problems? Is just filing |
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> a bug against a specific version enough? |
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I think filing a bug isn;t enough as a dev can easily remove the ebuild |
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you need from the tree anyway. You should copy the 8.34.8 ebuild to a |
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personal overlay, and mask >8.34.8 as an interim measure |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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