On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 19:35 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:On 2011-12-03, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 +0000 (UTC), Philipp Kern ><trash@philkern.de> wrote: >>On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:>>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released.>>You can jigdo any old CD image. > How do I do this for a past point release, such as, 6.0.1, for > example? You use jigdo? Try it, it works.In my experience jigdo does not work for a CD release of a previouspoint release because some of the packages referenced by the jigdo areremoved from the mirrors i.e. those which have been updated.
Actually jigdo has a mechanism to fallback to a certain server for packages
it can not download from the given mirror. That is: zcat debian-502-i386-netinst.jigdo ... [Servers] Debian=http://us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/ --try-lastapparently this 'try-last' repo does not store historical packages long enough for any reason. In that case the unfinished image can still be mounted loopback and re-used, but this time the snapshot.debian.org mirror could be given as a mirror
to finally finish the image. $ zgrep -i generated debian-502-i386-netinst.jigdo Info='Generated on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:07:10 +0200' Then you navigate the required dated URL at: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/ which is the case of debian-502 should be something like: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20090629T101044Z/ (yes, this is not very convenient)