On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > The folks who maintain the portage servers will at times remove old > versions of programs, for instance the ati-drivers package. In that > past I did a blind update and got a new ati-drivers package but > unfortunately it didn't support the ATI 9100 IGP chipset and the > machine broke. > > Hope this explains my comment.
Portage to the rescue!! :-) Well, eix actually. It comes with a script - eix-test-obsolete - that scans your portage config files looking for inconsistencies and redundancies, then splits huge amounts of output to the console. One of the things it does is find installed ebuilds that are no longer in the tree. This fixes your bind, as you can get copies of those missing ebuilds from /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>/*ebuild and copy them to a local private overlay where they will stay for posterity -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
