[gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Joseph
What is going on with portage? All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. I've masked current one app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 but looking at the web-page this is not even stable poppler-0.22.3 is masked all across the previous version are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:33:24 -0600, Joseph wrote: All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. That makes sense. These are testing packages, if the tests reveal a fault that is rectified in a later ebuild, only the fixed one will be made stable.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/13 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: All ebuilds stay on the Gentoo CVS server, ones that are removed from the tree in the attic. If you want a previous version, download it from the attic and put it in your local overlay. -- Neil Bothwick If there is light at the end of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 17:50, schrieb Joseph: On 04/18/13 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: All ebuilds stay on the Gentoo CVS server, ones that are removed from the tree in the attic. If you want a previous version, download it from the attic and put it in your local overlay. -- Neil Bothwick If

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: What is going on with portage? All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. I've masked current one app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 but looking at the web-page this is not even stable poppler-0.22.3 is masked all

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/13 22:10, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: What is going on with portage? All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. I've masked current one app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 but looking at the web-page this is not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:34:42 -0600, Joseph wrote: I'm not getting any were with this; looking blindly trying to install older versions hoping it might help This Gentoo portage + attic is not getting any easier it is not documented officially how to install and run it and if I ask how to do it