From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABA55138334 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE761E09FD; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dallas-out-001.smtp25.com (dallas-out-001.smtp25.com [63.71.12.128]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AD51E09E7 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id w7A0kelg000690 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 20:46:40 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.13.7/Submit) id w7A0keWK000689; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 20:46:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 20:46:40 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/26 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems 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 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SpamH-Filter: dallas-out-001.smtp25.com-w7A0ket6027392 X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-Archives-Salt: 17079adb-4d49-43b5-9e16-2b2a0add407e X-Archives-Hash: 93a28d6e4565818fab96d6b7d5561f85 On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:02:40 -0400, Jack wrote: >=20 > On 08/09/2018 04:57 AM, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I need to compile gnome-control-center-3.24.3 as 24.4 will not > > compile (filed a bug, but no response). I have saved the old ebuild, > > but it needs something in the files subdirectory and I don't have it > > and it was deleted some time ago. I am using git and I wonder if its > > somehow obtainable from there or from some other location. I need > > this to resolve preserved-lib problem. > >=20 > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > Since you are using git, you should just be able to checkout the > commit prior to the one which removed the needed file(s).=A0 "git > log" should give you enough in formation to identify the target > commit - find the commit which removed the file, then select the > next older one, which is the next one in the log. >=20 This is what I was thinking, but I thought there might something on the web which had this kind of stuff. Thanks. --=20 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com