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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com