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Hi, Stroller. |
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On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 05:53:48PM +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage |
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> snapshots kicking around, by any chance? |
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I have a /usr/portage from 2009-12-20 on my "rescue" system. I don't |
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think I've synched it after that (but I'm too lazy to look up the `find' |
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info page to check properly). |
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Is that any good? |
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> I have a box which hasn't been updated in 2 - 3 years. It would |
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> normally be easiest to format and reinstall, but in this case the box |
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> in question is a PS3 which was installed using the experimental PS3 |
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> stages which are (I think) no longer available. |
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> I'm pretty sure this machine has some PS3-specific hacks applied, so I |
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> think an attempt to upgrade the hard way is worthwhile. If it doesn't |
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> work I'll probably try Debian, or something. |
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> I have no illusions that attempting this *will* be a pain the ass, |
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> because in the past I've updated machines which have been ignored for |
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> 18 months, and that required lots of manually digging in the Portage |
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> CVS attic and copying files into the local overlay by hand. |
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> So if anyone has any Portage snapshots that are sufficiently old left |
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> lying around from an old install, it would save me that grunt work. |
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> Alternatively, if you, too, have a machine that hasn't been updated a |
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> long time, maybe you'll be able to help me by tarring up a copy of the |
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> Portage tree. |
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As a matter of interest, how, exactly, are you going to use the old |
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portage? Is it a matter of updating in two moderate chunks rather than |
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everything at once? |
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> Thanks for looking, |
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> Stroller. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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