Re: [gentoo-dev] Restoring from the Attic?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 21 Mar 2015 14:01, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> What's the procedure for restoring ebuilds from the CVS Attic?  I need to
> temporarily restore an ebuild from the Attic while hunting down a solution for
> Bug #543978.  The CVS Tutorial doesn't have anything on this specific operation.

grab a specific file:
	cvs up -r <rev> <file>

when you're done, reset it:
	cvs up -A

or just download it by hand (use the "Show dead files" link):
	http://sources.gentoo.org/$CATEGORY/$PN/
-mike