On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:43:39 -0500,
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days
> (March 24th 2020. -- Life has been ... trying.
>
> What is the best way forward?
>
> It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the interim;
> glibc, Python 2.7 being deprecated, default Python going to
> 3.7(?), other breaking changes....
>
> Is there a way that I can sync portage to something from April,
> May, or even June of 2020, do a full update (including "-DUNe
> @world")? Iterating through multiple rounds to get current?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
What you could try to do, if you are syncing using git, is to roll it
back to those dates by checking out a commit each time and doing an
update. I don't guarantee it would work, but its worth a shot,
otherwise reinstall time.
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