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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