Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 January 2008, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing > > a distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be > > default behavior. > > From the ecle

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing a > distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be default > behavior. From the eclean manpage: If you use the --destructive option, eclean will o

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
> > > * nvidia missing in FILESDIR > > > > > > Can anyone tell what happened? > > > > > You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ > > subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you > > need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same p

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
> > * nvidia missing in FILESDIR > > > > Can anyone tell what happened? > > > You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ > subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you > need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place > you cop

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:58:52 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * nvidia missing in FILESDIR > > Can anyone tell what happened? > You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that direc

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
> Also, gentoo has an "attic" where all older ebuilds are archived. You > can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to > keep it around for as long as you need. > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ > > There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy bra

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Also, gentoo has an "attic" where all older ebuilds are archived. You can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to keep it around for as long as you need. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy branch for even

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Grant: > The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old > but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of > my monitor correctly at 1366x768.  The later versions insist on > 1280x768 I think.  I need to re-compile the

[gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm upgrading the kernel, but how