On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Alan, Thanks. The command is enlightening and is helping me clean things up a bit. Now, if I knew anything at all about creating and maintaining my own overlay I'd be really dangerous. ;-) Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
