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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Old Firefox ebuild?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:29:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:02:57 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> Does anyone have a copy of the firefox 38.x ebuild around?

- go to https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/www-client/firefox
- find the revision before the one that deleted 38.8
- select the "tree" view (above the path)
- copy everything you need

> btw I do make regular backups, but not of anything under /usr.  This

So in other words you don't make backups..

-h