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From: Laurent Kappler <laurent@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:18:22
Message-Id: 4B71BA01.5010005@logiquefloue.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version by Alex Schuster
1 Alex Schuster a écrit :
2 > Laurent Kappler writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in
6 >> portage is 6.5.7.
7 >>
8 >> How could I do that??
9 >>
10 >
11 > Look in the attic [*] for old ebuilds. Looks like 6.4.7.0 is not
12 > available, so maybe you will download 6.4.8.3 which is the nearest
13 > version. Put the ebuild into your overlay, create a manifest (like ebuild
14 > /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick/imagemagick-6.4.8.3.ebuild
15 > manifest), and try to emerge =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.8.3. This might
16 > work, but maybe there is other software you have installed that needs a
17 > newer version - then it would not work so easily.
18 >
19 > Why do you need it anyway? You could also just fetch the tarball from
20 > imagemagick.org, build it in a local directory, and install to
21 > /usr/local/.
22 >
23 > Wonko
24 >
25 > [*] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-
26 > gfx/imagemagick/?hideattic=0
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 I'm using Haxe/Neko and we have a wrapper for ImageMagick, but as no one
31 did really use it often the last version is made for IM 6.4.7.
32 So I might download the ebuild 6.4.5 in a hurry, then we will update the
33 Haxe library.
34
35 Laurent

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>