[gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

[gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

[John Covici]

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.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

[Jack]

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.
>
> 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).  "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.

Re: [gentoo-user] need files for older ebuild

[John Covici]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:02:40 -0400,
Jack wrote:
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > 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).  "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.
> 

This is what I was thinking, but I thought there might something on
the web which had this kind of stuff.

Thanks.

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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