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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:17:01
Message-Id: 1956864.9l4Pdrdm7X@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Friday 14 Oct 2016 11:02:57 Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > Does anyone have a copy of the firefox 38.x ebuild around?
3
4 https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-client/firefox/
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6
7 > The latest update wiped it out, and now if I take the plunge to the
8 > current versions (i.e. at least 45.x) and I find then insufferable, I
9 > have no way back :-(
10 >
11 > btw I do make regular backups, but not of anything under /usr. This
12 > will teach me.
13
14 You could use 'emerge --buildpkg y' to build binary packages you can revert
15 to, in case an update/upgrade breaks anything important.
16
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Mick

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