On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:35:06 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > Yes. Current stable version is 2.5.7-r5, and 2.5.7-r2 does not exist in > > the main Portage tree any more (though you can get it from the attic). > > You can also get it from /var/db/pkg/cat-egory/package/. Copy it to your > portage overlay, you may need to enable this in make.conf, and portage > should be happy to stay with it. However, you should first find out why > this ebuild was removed for portage. It may not simply be because of its > age, there are older versions still there. From the changelog, it appears > that all updates since the version you have are for security bugs. If your > version has been removed because it is insecure, maybe you should consider > changing. > > It is important to understand why the portage maintainers are trying to > force this change on you, rather than trying to kludge your way around it.
I agree. But look at it on my point of view. This box is a laptop. Iuse it both for work and for devel as well as to play with new software. Like Squid, I only used it to look at the settings, (while reading the excellent book - Squid- The Definitive Guide) I only am keeping it around because I'm might just play with it again. :-) But the attic is not a good idea and I admit kludgy. I will check out what holly mentioned in another email. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:10:24 up 6:50, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.31, 0.41 -- [email protected] mailing list
