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== installing a specific version of a package ==
done using an "atom" (see manpage)
 example:
 # emerge package_name =package_name-version.number


== manually installing a package without internet access ==
1.  On a box with Internet access, fetch the distfile.  First, use emerge fetch the install source for you...
 emerge --fetchonly <package>
 
Next, use wget to download the file.

2.  Upload the file to the /usr/portage/distfiles/ directory on the machine you intend to install the package on

*** note  This procedure does not take package dependencies into account! ***

==portage history==

verion history for a package
 $ qlop --list <pkgname>

sync history
 # qlop --sync
Wed Nov  4 09:44:38 2015 >>> gentoo
Mon Dec 14 15:39:30 2015 >>> gentoo
Wed Feb 17 07:33:48 2016 >>> gentoo
Sun Feb 28 10:32:25 2016 >>> gentoo

packages merged per day (you can tell when updates have been run based on the number of packages per day)
 # qlop -l | awk '{print $2,$3,$5}' | uniq -c



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