[gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list here. Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). Thanks Don Reid -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:34 -0700, don wrote: I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list here. Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). Thanks Don Reid Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say emerge -av xorg-x11? That should downgrade everything that needs to be downgraded... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
don wrote: I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list here. Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). You can get a list of all the packages at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this: emerge portage-utils emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $( modular-x-packages.txt)) Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say emerge -av xorg-x11? That That just complains about many packages blocking it. On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: You can get a list of all the packages at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this: emerge portage-utils emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $( modular-x-packages.txt)) Thanks, I was afraid that unmerging X would also try to unmerge all the applications etc. that used it. I guess I was wrong. Given that, I took the list of blocking packages, and did the above with that list. Now I re-emerging the older ones. Don -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
