-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kahle wrote: > Is there a way for X to easily query the portage history and dig up > the ebuild that was there at some point. She could then use the old > ebuild for their new version, but without efficient search she would > probably start from scratch. Some packages are treecleaned in the > state 'working but with a single bug (and nobody cares)', it would be > good if that state is somehow retained after the removal. Then you > can get a fully working package while fixing only one bug. > > Searching through mailing list archives with automatted removal > mails would be my hack, what would be yours?
I had to do this some months ago, I wanted to try a old package requiring some gnome-1 libs. As you said that this kind of package are likely to have/had bugs, then a quick search in the bugzilla should retrieve the category. After that, sources.g.o can help finding those old ebuilds. In my case, it was media-libs/gdk-pixbuf:0. That package was removed with gnome-1 (and later re-added as x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2). Knowing media-libs, I found it using viewvc on gentoo-x86 [1], then "show X dead files" displays all necessary files and patches. ,Cyprien gentoo-lisp contributor [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-libs/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5L+V8ACgkQWxOlHn1uWpdHZACdGelU21ZvHJ8OcY77S0OMinyW QVoAoIlDo7a4GHiY4omW2fVWUsFCrr/P =BlFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
