On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:44:12 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > I have run into a few problems where emerge can't download files. So > I'm finding them online, downloading them, and saving them to > /usr/portage/distfiles.
Ah yes, I hadn't thought about the mirrors being too up to date. > I have had a couple things (really old kernel source still installed) > that I needed to find the ebuild files for. I added them to my local > repository. If the packages are installed, the ebuilds are in var/db/pkg. The kernel shouldn't be a problem, I would expect you to be able to jump straight to the current version, although you may prefer to recompile it once you are fully up to date on the toolchain. -- Neil Bothwick Crash: (v.) to terminate a program in the usual fashion, i.e. by locking up the computer or setting fire to the printer. (n.) the process of such termination.
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