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 1Qi9nU-0008Ap-S7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:41:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA3E921C22E; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE8521C07D for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5115 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Jul 2011 18:40:03 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD95567D8.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.103.216]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:40:01 +0200 Received: (qmail 3612 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jul 2011 18:37:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:37:44 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around? Message-ID: <20110716183744.GA2336@acm.acm> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4a7548a2b0a32218cfe6aac58c966972 Hi, Stroller. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 05:53:48PM +0100, 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 /usr/portage from 2009-12-20 on my "rescue" system. I don't think I've synched it after that (but I'm too lazy to look up the `find' info page to check properly). Is that any good? > 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. As a matter of interest, how, exactly, are you going to use the old portage? Is it a matter of updating in two moderate chunks rather than everything at once? > Thanks for looking, > Stroller. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).