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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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> On 04/18/13 22:10, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> >Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: |
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> >> What is going on with portage? |
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> >> All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not |
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> >> even made stable. |
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> >> |
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> >> I've masked current one app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 but looking at the |
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> >> web-page this is not even stable poppler-0.22.3 is masked all across the |
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> >> previous version are all removed. |
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> >> All the packages that I recently try to roll back are gone, in most |
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> >> cases only one is available so there is no option to roll back. |
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> >> |
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> >> Am I missing something? |
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> >> |
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If you want the option to rollback, you should use FEATURES=buildpkg[1] in |
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general, and qpkg to make a binpkg from current system. qpkg is part of |
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portage-utils, which is highly recommended. man q after you install it, and |
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follow the instructions in einfo to get it to sync when portage does. |
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> >The version of poppler that you have masked ( 0.22.2-r2 ) is stable. So |
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> >it's not a portage screw up, the problem is more that you are trying to |
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> >install outdated software. |
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> |
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> I'm not getting any were with this; looking blindly trying to install older |
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> versions hoping it might help.. |
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> Maybe it is time for me to move to another distro. |
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Why do you want an older version? I don't understand why you have 0.22.2-r2 |
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masked at all; it's in stable which means it's been tested by quite a few |
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people already, and it is recommended that you upgrade. |
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Just be sure to do a revdep-rebuild after you emerge -uD --changed-use world |
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and depclean. |
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As to attic stuff, as Neal said you need to copy ebuild and any needed files |
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from the files subdir into a local overlay. You can read about how to do that |
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at [2] but as I said, I don't think you should have stable poppler masked |
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in the first place. |
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Regards, |
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steveL. |
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[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7165614.html#7165614 |
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[2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4547366.html#4547366 |
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