On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) It absolutely isn't that the hardware is unsupported, it's that a > *feature* of the hardware (TV Out S-Video) became unsupported.
And the S-Video output is part of the hardware, so you do have unsupported hardware. > 2) Following your Bugzilla suggestion about asking that it be put back > into portage to it's logical conclusion and it gets scary. Here's the > paraphrased request: > > a) I need ati-driver-8.28.8 put back into portage because it's the > last driver that supports TV out for the 9100 IGP chipset. > b) Unfortunately I need 2.6.19 added back into portage because it's > the last kernel that ati-driver-8.28.8 runs on. > c) Because all this old stuff doesn't work on the new xorg-server I > need xorg-server-1.1.1 to remain in portage. When you put it like that... but there's no harm in asking. > I really think this is what a personal overlay is for, but as I've > said for years, it's hard to build an overlay when you don't know what > needs to be in it until it's been removed. I think that whenever you start masking newer versions of a package to force portage to stay with the older ones, you should consider copying them to an overlay. Everything is removed eventually and if you can't keep up with updates, you preferred version will disappear at some time. It's not the end of the world as you can still get the files from the CVS attic, it's just that copying them in advance saves some work. > And yes, *something* has > removed these files, at least from my distfiles directory and I'm > pretty confident it wasn't me by hand because the machines all have > disk space which is the only reason I ever remove packages from there > by hand. eix-sync makes no mention of cleaning $DISTDIR, either in its man page or --help output, so I reckon you're running something else to do this. Maybe eclean in a postsync script. What do you have in /etc/portage/postsync.d? You could put a script in here that runs rsync -a /usr/portage/ /usr/portage.bak/ which would mean you have your own portage attic and could retrieve any deleted ebuild whenever you want. -- Neil Bothwick Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
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