On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:50:15 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I'd like to try and update a package I masked long time ago due to > performance problems. Upstream the problem does not seem completely > addressed and solved so I'd like to be able to go back to the old > version just in case. But the old version is no longer in the tree. If > I quickpkg it will I be able to reinstall it anyway?
Yes, by passing the path to the package to emerge. But this is considered experimental, a safer solution is to copy the ebuild to a local overlay. The ebuilds for all installed packages are in /var/db/pkg. -- Neil Bothwick I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
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