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Re: history transparency



On 15 March 2013 00:56, Philip Ashmore <contact@philipashmore.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/12 08:58, Paul Wise wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote:
>>
>>> I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and
>>> obtain
>>> at least the versions + patches of all the source packages that would
>>> have
>>> been installed / available to reproduce the Debian system running on the
>>> users machine at the time they reported the bug.
>>>
>>> With more and more source packages becoming available under publicly
>>> accessible version control, what needs to change in Debian to make this
>>> possible?
>>
>>
>> Nothing, it already exists:
>>
>> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091229T215155Z/
>
> How do I work out which snapshot I have installed now?
> I download from Sid.
>

Take the checksum of Packages from /var/lib/apt/lists and find a
matching one on snapshots.
It will be close, but not everything.
A better way is to use apt-clone which will generate a more
comprehensive state tarball.

> Is there a micro-version file that stores this information or is it a time
> stamp on some file?
>

How would that help at all? Given that it will never know the set of
packages you have installed, or obsolete packages not-removed,
modified conffiles etc.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.


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