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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The normal way of doing this is to create a custom spell in your
personal grimoire, and make sure the personal grimoire has a higher
priority than the others. The tools normally used for doing this sort of
thing are scribe and scribbler.

On Sat, 2005-15-10 at 22:44 +0300, Tanel Tammet wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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