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