On 2/26/21 12:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Ah yes, I hadn't thought about the mirrors being too up to date.
There's also issue with older packages being installed. E.g. I have an older kernel source (4.14.127) that I'm keeping around for various reasons. I've found that the Gentoo repo / portage removes older ebuild files. So, I've had to source them and add them to my local repo.
Even putting the old ebuilds into my local repo is entertaining because repoman / ebuild fail to download the source files b/c the mirrors have updated. Hence finding files and putting them in distfiles.
If the packages are installed, the ebuilds are in var/db/pkg.
The package (distribution files) for the version that is installed are in distfiles. But that does little for an ebuild that's looking for a newer version that's no longer on the expected mirrors.
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.
This system has both Open vSwitch and OpenZFS, so I'm loath to allow automation to change the kernel version. That will be a problem for future me to deal with manually.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
