On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > The folks who maintain the portage servers will at times remove old
> > versions of programs, for instance the ati-drivers package. In that
> > past I did a blind update and got a new ati-drivers package but
> > unfortunately it didn't support the ATI 9100 IGP chipset and the
> > machine broke.
> >
> > Hope this explains my comment.
>
> Portage to the rescue!! :-)
>
> Well, eix actually. It comes with a script - eix-test-obsolete - that
> scans your portage config files looking for inconsistencies and
> redundancies, then splits huge amounts of output to the console. One of
> the things it does is find installed ebuilds that are no longer in the
> tree.
>
> This fixes your bind, as you can get copies of those missing ebuilds
> from /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>/*ebuild and copy them to a local
> private overlay where they will stay for posterity
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

Alan,
 Thanks. The command is enlightening and is helping me clean things up a bit.

 Now, if I knew anything at all about creating and maintaining my
own overlay I'd be really dangerous. ;-)

Cheers,
Mark
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