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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:32:51
Message-Id: 201002091853.25825.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge older version by Laurent Kappler
1 Laurent Kappler writes:
2
3 > I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in
4 > portage is 6.5.7.
5 >
6 > How could I do that??
7
8 Look in the attic [*] for old ebuilds. Looks like 6.4.7.0 is not
9 available, so maybe you will download 6.4.8.3 which is the nearest
10 version. Put the ebuild into your overlay, create a manifest (like ebuild
11 /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick/imagemagick-6.4.8.3.ebuild
12 manifest), and try to emerge =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.8.3. This might
13 work, but maybe there is other software you have installed that needs a
14 newer version - then it would not work so easily.
15
16 Why do you need it anyway? You could also just fetch the tarball from
17 imagemagick.org, build it in a local directory, and install to
18 /usr/local/.
19
20 Wonko
21
22 [*] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-
23 gfx/imagemagick/?hideattic=0

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version Laurent Kappler <laurent@××××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version Laurent Kappler <laurent@××××××××××××.org>