Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:12:38 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > > to /etc/portage.package.mask > > /etc/portage/package.mask as far as i know. That's what I meant; my keyboard must have moved sideways as I was about to hit the key :( -- Neil Bothwick But I thought YOU did the backups... sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-24 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 22.03.2007, at 11:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: to /etc/portage.package.mask /etc/portage/package.mask as far as i know. Philipp -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older > versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. > > According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: > > Either: emerge -vp

[gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)

2007-03-22 Thread reader
The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: Either: emerge -vp ">="mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 or emerge -vp ">=mail-mta/sendm