On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:16, Mark Knecht wrote: > > In cases like that, you use portage overlays. Then the ebuild will > > always be there until *you* delete it > > The problem with this view of overlays has been that I do an eix-sync > and find that something I'm currently running been removed from > portage - for whatever reason but mostly it's been security issues or > the developer not wanting to maintain an old version. At that point > it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay what I don't have.
no, it is still there. You do have it! If you have a package installed, its ebuild is safed in /var/db/pkg/category/packagename just copy it. Or you extract it from cvs. But it is not 'gone'. > I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the > web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The > problem is for a user type like me, and yes, I'm *purely* a user type, > it's a bit beyond my skillset today to go get it and build the overlay > myself. it is not 'somewhere'. It is on the gentoo hp. AND your harddisk. > > I've mentioned this in the past but the idea has never gained > traction. If portage is thinking about removing an ebuild from my > machine why not just move it to some location on my machine so I've > always got a copy of what I was running? I could build my overlay from > what's been moved there. No pain at all. Or I can do what you suggest > and remove it. because there is already a copy if you installed it. Also, do you really want to never remove an ebuild?`How many millions should be kept? And the diskspace? > > Anyway, that's my view from user land on this subject. It is only this > area where Gentoo is a bit of a pain for me. because you don't know how to use it and never informed yourself? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
