From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:12:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6F3D927-2A1B-4805-8F63-3D01D2B32D41@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E21D44A.8010806@orlitzky.com>
On 16 July 2011, at 19:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 07/16/2011 12:53 PM, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Couldn't you just extract a stage3/snapshot in the root, and then emerge
> -e world? I haven't tried it naturally, but it sounds like a good idea
> to me at this moment.
I guess it may be irrational of me, but I'd really rather not do this because I fear architecture issues with the binaries. I mean, I guess that generic PPC64 binaries should work, and that's what I'll actually end up compiling myself, but I'd still be happier with ones that have been *built* on (or specifically for) a cell.
Stroller.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-16 16:53 [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around? Stroller
2011-07-16 18:11 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-17 14:12 ` Stroller [this message]
2011-07-16 18:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-16 21:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-17 14:40 ` Stroller
2011-07-16 19:14 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-17 14:41 ` Stroller
2011-07-16 20:57 ` James Cloos
2011-07-17 14:42 ` Stroller
2011-07-16 21:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-17 14:44 ` Stroller
2011-07-16 23:22 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-07-17 14:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-07-17 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-07-17 23:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-07-20 9:03 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-20 14:08 ` Stroller
2011-07-20 11:20 ` Thanasis
2011-07-20 14:09 ` Stroller
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