Bug#650783: snapshot.debian.org: please list "deb ..." lines for sources.list on http://snapshot.d.o/package/$package/$version/

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

It helps a little: multi-binary packages are easier to apt-get than wget
3-4 files. Although, arguably not much easier.

I'll have a look at the code this weekend, to see if I can come up with
anything fancy.

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