On 7/19/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
> I am having trouble updating these machines since
> neither the kernel or the ati-drivers ebuilds are available in portage
> any more and, unfortunately, nothing that is in portage seems to boot
> and work correctly.
If they work for you and there's no security issues, then why upgrade? :)
Ryan,
I'm surprised you want to take up bandwidth on the list for this.
1) MythTV-0.18-X works but has stability issues so the backend server
needed to be upgraded to 0.19-X.
2) MythTV frontends must match the backend so the remote frontend, of
which these two Pundit-R boxes are, must be updated.
3) The Pundit-R machines use xor-x11-6.8.2-r1. Unfortunately for me
the maintainers have removed it from portage. I'm stuck in a masking
issue to keep it working.
4) Unfortunately many of the parts of MYthTV-0.19-X seems to be asking
for xorg-x11-6.9 or higher.
With all of that I figured I might as well try to get to a new
kernel, new ati-driver and new xorg-x11 along with a new MythTV and
new mysql. The Gentoo devs/maintainers have a right to stop
maintaining all the old revs but I DESPERATELY wish they would create
an graveyard for old ebuilds that folks in my situation could download
and place in my overlay. I cannot find some of these ebuilds and this
newish policy has created a heck of a lot of extra work for me.
Unless there is something constructive to be said please don't
bring this stuff to the lists. We don't need emails as a way to send
nothing but smiley's. Have a beer instead. Thanks.
Cheers,
Mark
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