Bug#650783: snapshot.debian.org: please list "deb ..." lines for sources.list on http://snapshot.d.o/package/$package/$version/
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> >
> >> So it'd end up like:
> >>
> >> deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110623T151535Z/ snapshot archive
> >
> >> I can even spare an hour or two to create a patch, if the above is
> >> deemed acceptable. (And hope that I understand the code, so I can
> >> fulfill that promise :)
> >
> > You would have to create Packages and Sources files too, you realize
> > that? (And snapshot doesn't have the meta data needed to populate these
> > files somewhere handy)
>
> Yep. And that might be harder than I anticipate now.
>
> In that case, there's still:
>
> deb http://snapshot.d.o/archive/debian/$date snapshot $package
>
> That should be easier to generate Packages and Sources files for.
But it doesn't take care of dependencies, which makes it next to
useless. Might as well just wget the file and dpkg -i it.
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