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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:14 am    Post subject: Installing an older version of a package. [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Is there a way to install an older version of a package, e.g. Xorg-1.12.2 instead of Xorg-1.13.1?

I've browsed the documentation but haven't found anything specific.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

put
Quote:
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1
in /etc/portage/package.mask.
Code:
emerge xorg-server

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE wrote:
put
Quote:
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1
in /etc/portage/package.mask.
Code:
emerge xorg-server

Thanks for that. I'll add it to my list of experiments.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In addition to masking the later packages, I used the invocation suggested in another thread and got the desired result:

># emerge -av1 =xorg-server-1.12.4

For those unfamiliar with the syntax, the -1 (it's a numeral 1) means 'one-shot', and doesn't include the package in 'world' for subsequent upgrades, and the '=' is an operator specifying a package version rather than the default (latest). The -av is 'ask' and 'verbose' - `man emerge` describes them.
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