Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday 16 July 2011 17:53:48 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 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-20 Thread Thanasis
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14040344/7-Oct-2010_portage.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 July 2011, at 10:03, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday 16 July 2011 17:53:48 Stroller wrote: A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around, by any chance? ... If you are still looking, I have the following: portage-20100128.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 July 2011, at 12:20, Thanasis wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14040344/7-Oct-2010_portage.tar.bz2 Got it! Thanks! Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 July 2011, at 19:11, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/16/2011 12:53 PM, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 July 2011, at 19:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... 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? Yeah, that would be fantastic, thanks, Alan.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 July 2011, at 20:14, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around, by any chance? Amazingly enough, I have portage.latest.tar.bz2 dated

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 July 2011, at 21:57, James Cloos wrote: I have a clone of the git conversion whose last commit is dated Sun Apr 12 21:54:28 2009 +, if that is of any help. Yeah, that would be fantastic, thanks. Could you put it somewhere I can download it from, please? Feel free to email me

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 July 2011, at 22:00, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... deinstall everything you don't need to install the rest. Then update that base system. Afterwards install all the stuff you need. The less packages installed, the easier the update. Excellent point! Thank you. I think once or

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 July 2011, at 00:22, James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: in this case the box in question is a PS3 which was installed using the experimental PS3 stages Hello Stroller, I do not have what you seek, but I did run across this link, some time ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 July 2011, at 21:42, James wrote: … If firmware can be replaced, then I see no ethical issue in replacing the firmware; Indeed. ... Staying in Sony's good graces so as to stay active on their network, is a personal decision, and I respect that you know what you want. Yeah, it's

[gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Stroller
A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around, by any chance? 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/16/2011 12:53 PM, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around, by any chance? Amazingly enough, I have portage.latest.tar.bz2 dated March 30th, 2010. Would that help? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread James Cloos
I have a clone of the git conversion whose last commit is dated Sun Apr 12 21:54:28 2009 +, if that is of any help. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 16 July 2011 17:53:48 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 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:37:44 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 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). cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk -- Neil Bothwick