Legacy packages

[Yasaburou]

Hello everyone,

A bit of backstory first. I have a bit of a strange case with my machine, it's a VIA WM8650 based 7" netbook. In 2012 someone ported Arch to the architecture with a prebuilt image he made, a little bit before some big changes like systemd and the /lib /usr/lib migration. The way the provided system is at the moment, I can install most of the simple Arch Linux ARM packages I download, stuff like screenfetch, scrot, irssi, etc. - but doing a full system upgrade with pacman -Syu throws a whole bunch of errors and probably breaks the system. There were some workarounds made by other users but the resources for these have all expired from their hosting sites, or had their domains bought out, etc.. What this means is that I'm stuck with a modified pre-systemd Arch Linux ARM from 2012. At the moment I'm after compiling software, the usual stuff from base-devel (make, gcc etc.) - my question is, is there a way to find legacy releases of software so that I can get the versions of these programs from 2012 when they were compatible with my machine?

Any help is appreciated. Loving Arch on my machine so far.

EDIT: Alternatively, if anyone happens to know how I could do a proper system upgrade from this outdated Arch on WM8650 architecture, that would be even better.

[WarheadsSE]

What kernel version do you have?

[Yasaburou]

armv5tejl Linux 2.6.32.9-test

[WarheadsSE]

Just ouch.

[sdjf]

I lost most of my old packages when the SD card I was storing them on got corrupted, but still do have quite a few old "any architecture" packages left from 2012-2013. But they are pretty much command line stuff. What kinds of things are you looking for? Some bits and pieces of xorg stuff, but that is useless if you do not have all the pieces. And a lot of libraries. A total of about 70-80 files in my main backup flash drive. Includes lynx, lsof, strace, for example.