Bug#821333: snapshot.debian.org: should advertise source-specific [check-valid-until=false] in preference to system-wide flag
Package: snapshot.debian.org
Followup-For: Bug #821333
Please find a patch attached.
Thanks for the really useful service.
Cheers Jochen
>From 263d34e0b8abf7d06b16242672c6d37b179b7503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jochen Sprickerhof <git@jochen.sprickerhof.de>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:30:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use check-valid-until option in source
---
web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako b/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
index db3495a..5c1dc72 100644
--- a/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
+++ b/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ If you want to add a specific date's archive to your apt <code>sources.list</cod
add an entry like these:
</p>
<pre>
-deb <a href="/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/</a> lenny main
-deb-src <a href="/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/</a> lenny main
-deb <a href="/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/</a> lenny/updates main
-deb-src <a href="/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/</a> lenny/updates main
+deb [check-valid-until=no] <a href="/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/</a> lenny main
+deb-src [check-valid-until=no] <a href="/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20091004T111800Z/</a> lenny main
+deb [check-valid-until=no] <a href="/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/</a> lenny/updates main
+deb-src [check-valid-until=no] <a href="/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/">http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20091004T121501Z/</a> lenny/updates main
</pre>
<p>
To learn which snapshots exist, i.e. which date strings are valid, simply
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ available timestamp which is before the time you specified.
<p>
To access snapshots of suites using Valid-Until that are older than a dozen days,
it is necessary to ignore the Valid-Until header within Release files, in order
-to prevent apt from disregarding snapshot entries ("Release file expired"). Use
-<code>aptitude -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update</code> or
-<code>apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update</code> for this purpose.
+to prevent apt from disregarding snapshot entries ("Release file expired").
</p>
<p style="margin-top:2em;">
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2.11.0
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