From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QjSiR-0005q8-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:05:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB69E21C261; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78B121C07E for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.138] (helo=smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjSh4-0002bb-6d for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:03:50 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjSh1-0003YD-I1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:03:47 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506EB297D for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:05:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sEZiyMGnUMsd for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:05:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BB40DF2 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:05:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1505630.jL1mu9iYJi@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QjSh1-0003YD-I1 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.647, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_50 0.80, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -1.14) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3415f6ee6aed4da96f9d23b22b95c5e3 On Saturday 16 July 2011 17:53:48 Stroller wrote: > A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots > kicking around, by any chance? > > I have a box which hasn't been updated in 2 - 3 years. It would normally be > easiest to format and reinstall, but in this case the box in question is a > PS3 which was installed using the experimental PS3 stages which are (I > think) no longer available. > > I'm pretty sure this machine has some PS3-specific hacks applied, so I think > an attempt to upgrade the hard way is worthwhile. If it doesn't work I'll > probably try Debian, or something. > > I have no illusions that attempting this *will* be a pain the ass, because > in the past I've updated machines which have been ignored for 18 months, > and that required lots of manually digging in the Portage CVS attic and > copying files into the local overlay by hand. > > So if anyone has any Portage snapshots that are sufficiently old left lying > around from an old install, it would save me that grunt work. > > Alternatively, if you, too, have a machine that hasn't been updated a long > time, maybe you'll be able to help me by tarring up a copy of the Portage > tree. > > Thanks for looking, > > Stroller. Stroller, If you are still looking, I have the following: portage-20100128.tar.bz2 portage-latest.tar.bz2 (dated Feb 23, 2010) portage-20090701.tar.bz2 (Find is still searching the rest of my system, but I think these are probably it. -- Joost