Neil Bothwick wrote:
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.
Great hint about the ebuild copy in /var/db/pkg, thanks.
raffaele
