Re: getting wheezy installer code

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 11:52 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Assuming an already checked out copy of the installer
> (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut), what's the best
> way to switch to wheezy?
> 
> mr git checkout -b wheezy origin/wheezy
> ?

I'm not sure that mr has branch management capabilities like this. I
expect it's a case of digging down in the package/* one by one and
checking out the wheezy branch (if one exists for that package).
Hopefully you have an idea which subpackages you are interested in and
can optimise this a bit rather than going through them all (which would
be pretty tedious, possibly scriptable though).

I expect quite a lot of them don't have a wheezy branch though, since no
wheezy specific release was needed.

I think running "apt-get source <udeb-name>" on a system with Wheezy
configured in sources.list should get you the actual current source
package. You might need to add a "deb-src $MIRROR wheezy
main/debian-installer" line to sources.list though?

HTH

Ian.

> I'm not really sure what to make of the svn/git hybrid nature of
> what's on my disk.
> 
> Thanks.
> Ross Boylan
> 
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