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[Tanel Tammet <tammet AT staff.ttu.ee>]

Hi,

This is surely a question suitable for FAQ (maybe even included
somewhere): suppose I have updated grimoire and the whole system
and now I want to recompile and reinstall an old version of some spell
(i.e. not do dispel -d spell oldversion, since this just takes a compiled
version from /var/cache/sorcery). Instead, I want to really download
the old version sources (not present on my machine), compile and
install these. I guess one could manually edit a grimoire, but I do
not know what files one should edit.

The actual context of the question is xfree86: I did - finally - upgrade
to 4.5.0, and this shiny new xfree failed to run 1024x768 on
my Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with intel 845G (driver i810). Whatever
I did, it went to lower res (claiming that 1024x768 is an unknown
mode). XFree 4.4.0 has always worked fine. I did compile and install
4.5.0 twice, played with the conf, of no avail. Finally decided to go
back to 4.4.0, but via recompilation. After dispel -d xfree86 4.4.0
SM still wanted to fetch 4.5.0 sources every time I tried to cast
xfree. Finally I went for the ugly solution: copied 4.4.0 sources over
4.5.0, everything worked.

Would love to use a nicer, proper solution, though.

Regards,
         Tanel Tammet