Any Old Distfiles ?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:36 pm Post subject: Any Old Distfiles ?

Team,

Following on from How was it using Gentoo in the early 2000s? I was trying to resurrect an old system to get some data off its hard drives.
That failed as it looks like the PSU failure it suffered damaged the motherboard. The hard drives survived and I got my data.

There is some history on the Wiki.

To cut a long story short, I came across my original Gentoo liveCD, so I just had to take it for a spin in Virtualbox.
I've got a stage 1, a contemporary portage snapshot and am on my way to stage2 but I have some source files missing.

In build order they are

Leonardo.b · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 297

Ok, I had other plans for the evening, but oh man, you helped me so many times I couldn't resist.
Here the few things I was able to find, or I tried to.

I don't know if the checksum match, this shadow is dated 2004:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/shadow-utils/shadow-4.0.3.tar.bz2/

bin86 is listed here:
http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/impl/packages/

This has no certificate on the website. the browser warned me it may be dangerous, so I didn't download it.
To be honest, I don't know what it means. hdparm, anyhow:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/openwall/Owl/pool/sources/hdparm/

I tried to git clone and checkout everything from the list.
I found the trick useful a couple of time, but these packages are too old.

Nothing more to add, I hope you'll find the others.
Leonardo

saellaven · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 646

I will pm you a link to the files below

pwdb-0.61.tar.bz2
shadow-4.0.3.tar.bz2
cracklib.2.7.tar.bz2
bin86-0.16.0.tar.bz2

I have some offline storage where I may have other things, but that's still a bit too early for me to have gentoo specific patches. I'll try to get to that this weekend.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:40 am Post subject:

Team,

The dire warnings from the browser are about the site certificate.
The stage1 from 2003 does not understand https at all. Its ftp or http only
The old portage checks file file size and md55sums over every file before it will use it.

shadow-4.0.3.tar.bz2 is a bit of an oddball.
The ebuild is tryng to fetch shadow-4.0.3.tar.gz, not the bz2 version.
If I fix the compression, portage isn't happy which leads me to think that the file contents differ too.

I now have hdparm and bin86 installed though.

Thank you.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Tony0945 · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 1:19 pm Post subject:

I don't have anything current quite that far back. The k6-3 came closest. I'll have to look in the basement for old IDE drives and put the in the k6-3 to check. I think I gave most of those old drives away. Last year I repurposed one to power an Anthlon64 Win 7 install. That would have wiped the Gentoo off. Can't check today. will check n the weekend. But, without a lot of hope.

EDIT: "gave" not have" Unfortunate 'one key off' error completely changed the meaning.

Leonardo.b · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 297

Yesterday I bookmarked some other websites where shadow was listed.
These include a .tar.gz or .tgz, but all in https:
https://ftp.pld-linux.org/software/shadow/
https://host-a.net/f/100862-shadow-403targz
https://opensource.buffalo.jp/ts-igl-101.html

Meanwhile, man pages are listed here:
http://mirror.linux.pizza/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/ap/man-pages/
https://iblog.nus.edu.sg/mirror/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/ap/man-pages/

And procps:
http://distfiles.pld-linux.org/by-md5/b/d/bde8c733292ea6a5e4080da93b581c9b/

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:05 pm Post subject:

Leonardo.b,

Thank you. Those three worked.
I've edited the lists in my opening post.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:31 pm Post subject:

Team
Its down to three packages now as

Leonardo.b · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 297

Allright, I took the occasion to improve my browsing skills.
Not sure to be able to find much more, I just tried anyway another shot in the machine.

wget-new-percentage:
http://cade.datamax.bg/away/wget-new-percentage/
bottom right, a tarball tagged 2004.
The diff patch you are looking for is inside it, kept for historical reasons.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:15 pm Post subject:

Leonardo.b

I made a mess of copy typing the file name. I'm sorry about that.
From the manifest, the file I need is

NeddySeagoon · vanilla-sources-2.4.20

Team,

All the must haves are installed to complete the base system are installed except

Tony0945 · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:12 pm Post subject:

Sorry, none of my mothballed drives are that old. Except for the one that has Windows For Workgroups. It probably doesn't even spin up. My first drive.
I d have some eight inch floppy drives. Is anyone interested?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:35 pm Post subject:

Tony0945,

Thank you for looking.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Tony0945 · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:40 pm Post subject:

I probably ran emaint of the working machines at some time and it cleared obsolete distfiles. This disturbs me.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:53 am Post subject:

Thank you one and all.

It works ... Historical Gentoo
There are a few screenshots there too.
twm
GNOME 2.2.1
KDE 3.1
If you have copies or links to any of the missing files, I'm all ears.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Leonardo.b · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 297

I tried to seatch for some other files in the lists.

Since the last one I gave you was a fake - I pay more caution.
Maybe some KDE stuff is here:
https://master.us.finkmirrors.net/distfiles/md5/c417474e1aa6b7efd9a0233fee81cf71/
There are at least two "kde*3-1.1.tar.bz2" in that mirror, probably more, not sure where.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:54 am Post subject:

Leonardo.b,

Thank you for the link and the hint on how to find more. I have the md5sums of the files I need.
It had never occurred to me to search for md5sums but that site is indexed that way.

I'm not overly worried about fakes. If the md5sum that portage expects does not match the provided files, the fetch fails.
I've had a few like that, so I notice and know to investigate further.

-- edit --

I have a full set of basic kde-base/kde-*3.1.1.tar.bz files now as well a a few others I was missing.
The KDE upgrade wants some 3.1.1a.diff.bz2 too.

I have the 3.1.1 and the 3.1.1a files complete but I can't make a diff.bz2 that has the correct md5 and size to keep portage happy.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 7:51 pm Post subject:

Team,

An anonymous benefactor donated links to some of the missing material, so its now my 20th anniversary edition of Gentoo :)
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.