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install outdated software.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